[Timesink]

In addition, a number of people posted an article from the Sydney Morning Herald a few days ago entitled 'Dead bodies are everywhere' - Herald Correspondent Lindsay Murdoch, travelling with a Marines artillery unit, reports on one of the war's first battles on the Iraq-Kuwait border. It too falsely alleged napalm use. Well, they had to tack a retraction onto the bottom of their story after it was published. I posted the following at the bottom of all those threads:

The Sydney Morning Herald has been caught lying so many times - including the intentional alteration of wire service articles to change their meaning - that it should NEVER be trusted on anything.

The following was subsquented tacked onto the end of this story:

The Pentagon subsequently issued a statement to the Herald:

Your story ('Dead bodies everywhere', by Lindsay Murdoch, March 22, 2003) claiming US forces are using napalm in Iraq, is patently false. The US took napalm out of service in the early 1970s. We completed destruction of our last batch of napalm on April 4, 2001, and no longer maintain any stocks of napalm. - Jeff A. Davis, Lieutenant Commander, US Navy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense.

The SMH lies. ALWAYS.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Too bad we don't use napalm. These scum need
to burn a little befor they go to hell.

[VMI70]

Just wexactly what is wrong with napalm. I can say from first hand obsrvation that it is very effective.
Good stuff--sticks to kids!

[ToTheStars]

We completed destruction of our last batch of napalm on April 4, 2001, and no longer maintain any stocks of napalm.

I'm sure they still have the recipe. Might be just the thing for the Republican Guard.

[Amerigomag]

While the article in question did use the word "napalm" the reference was to fuel-air ordinance which the US does use.

Fuel-air weapons are or are not legal/ethical depending on your point of view and the Aussey article lumped them into the same ethical catagory (non discriminant, area wide weapons) as the earlier, outlawed variant.

[LiteKeeper]

bump

[norcalvet]

More info here on napalm or "firebombs":
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/mk77.htm

[Victor K]

Where there will be gnashing of teeth and their thirst will never be quenched. Whoa to these evil men who leave this world with the blood of innocents they’ve tortured and those they’ve killed without remorse.