Monday, June 20, 2005

US Lied About Use of Napalm MK77 Weapons

From the Independent UK: Known as MK77s --they are napalm canister munitions-- and they evolved from the napalm bombs which we associate with the Korean and Vietnam wars. And US officials lied to British ministers over the use of these "internationally reviled" napalm-type firebombs in Iraq b/c the use of such incendiary weapons would breach the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), which permits their use only against military targets. So, despite persistent rumours of injuries among Iraqis consistent with the use of incendiary weapons such as napalm, Adam Ingram, the Defense minister, assured Labour MPs in January that US forces had not used these incendiary weapons (MK77) in Iraq. Now, Ingram admitted to the Labour MP Harry Cohen in a private letter obtained by The Independent that he had inadvertently misled Parliament because he had been misinformed by the US. "The US confirmed to my officials that they had not used MK77s in Iraq at any time and this was the basis of my response to you. I regret to say that I have since discovered that this is not the case and must now correct the position." The US State Dept website admitted in the run-up to the UK election that US forces had used MK77s in Iraq. Protests were made by MPs, but it was only this week that Ingram confirmed the reports were true. Let's re-cap: The US fixed the intelligence to wage the war in Iraq, the US lied to use illegal weapons in Iraq, and besides our poor troops who are risking their lives for all of these lies, who else has been taken along for a big ride? The UK and Tony Blair... Blair truly is Bush's lil bitch monkey, isn't he?
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