When doctors started reporting that some of the victims of the US bombing of several villages in Farah Province last week – an attack that left between 117 and 147 civilians dead, most of them women and children – were turning up with deep, sharp burns on their body that “looked like” they’d been caused by white phosphorus, the US military was quick to deny responsibility. FULL ARTICLE
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Lies, lies and lies about lies. What’s the end result? A complete destruction of any principles of freedom that this country should be based on. Instead we end up with war, mass murder, limitations on our rights here at home, and the list goes on.
Michael, I agree with you. White Phosphorus is really a bad actor.
And Red Phosphorus will give cover and illumination but is not nearly as volatile.
Just think of Weapons of Mass Destruction. I would include along with Nuclear Weapons : White Phosphorus, Depleted Uranium, Armed Drones, Cluster Bombs, Agent Orange, is this beginning to sound familiar?
I just watched a documentary on Charlie Wilson this morning. It was portrayed as an act of kindness toward the Afghans. I disagree , I look at it as an act of betrayal because we never had the Afghans well being in mind. What we wanted to do is use a surrogate army that we armed to wage a war of attrition against the Soviet Union.
From our involvement arose the Taliban and Al-Queda.
Documentaries seem to always portray the government as being kind and wonderful. I was taught all through school that the u.s. was helping the world, helping my family, getting me an education. All it does is steal and murder. I’d rather be done with ‘em.
There are a lot of ways to die. Some are quick and relatively painless, others go on for a long time. White Phosphorus is a horror. Even a timy splatter causes agony as it burns its way into your body or limbs. It is almost impossible to put it out. If you immerse the victim in water, it stops burning. When you take them out and it gets a little oxygen, it bursts into flame again. If you probe the wound to remove the phosperous, it breaks up into tinier pieces — and continues to burn.
It is horrible enough when used in a combat operation against a dug in enemy, but to splatter that stuff around amongst civilians, women and children, is obscene. We use it, the Israeli “Defense” Force uses it with great abundance against civilians. It ought to be outlawed and banned, along with cluster weapons, land mines, DU weapons, and the various chemical horrors like Agent Orange and Agent Purple.
After WW-I, gas was outlawed. It was horrible, and as like to kill friend as foe. My best friend’s Dad had a leg blown off in the trenches, then a gas attack almost destroyed his lungs. Then there is mustard gas.
What part of Thou Shalt Not Kill don’t we understand? We need to try to repair our damaged and ravaged planet, not spend billions looking for more horrific ways to kill.
Speaking of mustard gas, apparently we dumped our huge stockpiles of the same, plus nerve gasses at sea. Great military secret, all records of where they were dumped were destroyed (National Security, you know).
Now, porpoise are turning up dead on beaches with their faces and eyes burned out. Apparently, the drums are rusting and the damned stuff is leaking into the sea. When a sea creature swims into the effluvia from a leaking drum, they die a horrible death.
Why? Why? Why? Are we that addicted to death and destruction that we don’t care anymore?
Yuck! Words fail me.
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