So it's official.

[chaotic_nipple]

We used White Phosporus as an anti-personnel weapon in Fallujah after all. Of course the Pentagon had to deny it first, just in case there are one or two people out there who still actually trust anything our current administration says.

FWIW, I, personally, don't really object to using incendiary weapons against enemy troops. The whole point of going into battle is to kill the other side and keep killing them until the survivors surrender. The more casualities you can inflict in a given amount of time, the quicker they'll surrender, and, hopefully, the more they'll think about it before shooting at you the next time. Using any indiscriminate weapon in a area heavily populated with civilians is a bad idea, for publicity reasons if nothing else, but I don't think incendiary weapons are uniquely "evil" in that regard (Unlike, say Depleted Uranium, which really should be banned as a chemical weapon).

The real problem here is, don't those morons in Washington realize that lying about something that's so easily checked on is a bad idea? Granted, the average American voter has the attention span of a gnat, and will fall for just about any fabrication provided you say it with enough conviction; They'll have forgotten this little bit of chicanery within the week. But, that creaking sound you hear? That's a little bit more of what little credibility we still had with the international community, shuffling off this mortal coil.

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I wish Washington would stop trying to pander to the kind of people who would *care* about the appearance of willie peter in Falluja. I want them to just stand up and say "Hey, assholes.....it's a war. In wars it's considered within the bounds of etiquette to kill the fucking enemy. If our troops need white phosphorous, flamethrowers, shotguns or pointy fucking sticks to accomplish that goal, then goddammit, they're going to fucking have them!"


But that's why I'll never get elected to national office.....