Wednesday, November 16, 2005

US Admits Use of White Phosphorus

BBC: "The US earlier denied it had been used in Falluja at all, but the Pentagon has confirmed that US troops used white phosphorus during last yr's offensive in Falluja. "It was used as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants," spokesman Lt Col Barry Venable told the BBC - though not against civilians, he said. (OK, that may be true, but that would then mean that all of those dead children & babies were enemy combatants, no?) Col Venable said a statement by the US state dept that white phosphorus had not been used was based on "poor information". The BBC's defense correspondent Paul Wood says having to retract its denial has been a public relations disaster for the US military." Yeah, and speaking of public relations disasters-- burning off the flesh of civilians has been such a winning approach to win heart and minds in Iraq, eh? Hmm... how will the WH spin this now to make that Lt Col and/or those absolutely correct Italians look crazy?
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