Thread: US used chemical weapons on Iraq

Originally Posted by Technologist

You can't "spray" phosphorus... it is a solid, which chemically ingites when exposed to Oxygen.

Then it should be used in paint balls. You can spray paint balls in a crowd.

Originally Posted by YNKYH8R

Then it should be used in paint balls. You can spray paint balls in a crowd.

WTH is wrong with you?

Originally Posted by Technologist

Re-read the article... Phosphorus weapons are NOT classified as chemical weapons... they have a legitimate use on the battlefield (as I explained above, and as stated in the article).

IF they were used against civilians, it would be because of the JOHN WAYNE, Gun TOTING, wannabe RAMBOS (getting the hint here???), who saw it used in a FREAKIN' Movie and DISREGARD their training and mis-used them. None of MY troops would do such a thing (or they would be facing a courtmartial)!

Yes I am aware it is not classified as a chemical weapon but considering that if you get it on you it burns to the bone, then that is just a mere legality. BTW the use of a an incendiary weapons is prohibited for attacking civilians by Protocol III on Certain Conventional Weapons Bans. Protocol III has not been signed by the U.S..
White Phosphorus barely escapes being classified as a chemical weapon because it destruction is done by the thermal effect not from a chemical process. It is a chemical and from the way it sounds was used as a weapon. I agree anyone who would intentionally put this on anyone should be court martialed

As for your hint, no I'm not getting it at all, John Wayne always followed the rules.

I do believe that the article said it had not been used against civilians. And mesue, the "John Wayne" hint was not directed at you......Tech, I do believe, was pointing that hint at someone else. Considering you would be appalled at even using a gun during a war, I think I am correct in my assumption.

Originally Posted by Technologist

John Wayne syndrome.... sees a movie, was in the Reserves, never REALLY saw any battles.... otherwise known as a wannabe.

Hasn't been shocked yet... would change his attitude real quick if he saw someone (especially someone he knew) get hurt / killed in battle.... Things wouldn't be GREAT then...

You think I'm a wanna be? Wanna be what? See the movies? No I've never watched John Wayne.

*Had to add. Actually my unit just retruned from Iraq. And one of our guys was in a Hummer when an IED went off. He got the purple heart. He has his "good days" and "bad days".

Originally Posted by TexasGal

WTH is wrong with you?

Nothing I'm doing quite fine I even lost 5 pounds.

Originally Posted by tngirl

I do believe that the article said it had not been used against civilians. And mesue, the "John Wayne" hint was not directed at you......Tech, I do believe, was pointing that hint at someone else. Considering you would be appalled at even using a gun during a war, I think I am correct in my assumption.

At first the pentagon officials denied the use of white phosphorus, (I actually heard the pentagon official deny it early on when this first came out in a telephone interview) but there was too much evidence otherwise and so they had to tell the truth on that one. So now do you think we can believe them on the denial of using it on civilians?

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/Re...ticleID=191299
A RAI documentary showed images of bodies recovered after a November 2004 offensive by US troops on the town of Fallujah, which it said proved the use of white phosphorus against men, women and children who were burned to the bone.


I've never been to war so I can't say for sure if I would be appalled as you suggested, I'm pretty sure if fired upon I would fire back. You seem to think that my not backing Bush on this war makes me a pacifist, it does not. I never agreed or believed Bush's reasons for going to war. I found his reasons less than adequate and felt he was manipulating us all into it, and I have been proven right on that one.

Originally Posted by excuseme

That's not too bad because Dick Cheney would call you dishonest and reprehensible. I guess he's soo worked up because he's seen so much combat action and all.

Don't you know it's unpatriotic to question the answers?

Yep Cheney be talking about me and anyone else who does not buy his load of lies. From the polls I have been reading, he is talking about a lot of people. And it is funny to hear Cheney or any member of the Bush Administration talk about rewriting history. The amount of lies these people have been caught in is phenomenal.
I saw Bush in an interview somewhere in latin America I think say, we do not torture. And my God I got to give the man credit he said it with a straight face ( I did see some snarling at the corners of his mouth I thought he was biting his tongue to keep from laughing JMO). Meanwhile back in the states they are working on taking away prisoners rights to Habias Corpus and also trying to make torture legal. This administration is truly the kind of people who will **** down your back and then try and tell you its raining.
Yep the whole Bush Administration got real good at filling out deferrments, so they did not have to go fight when called. Here is a list of who served and who did not.
http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html
http://www.socialistworker.org/2002-...kenhawks.shtml

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10078197/

“The president and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing their memory, or their backbone — but we’re not going to sit by and let them rewrite history,” said Cheney, a principal architect of the war and a focus of Democratic allegations the administration misrepresented intelligence on Iraq’s weapons program.

Cheney said the suggestion Bush or any member of the administration misled Americans before the war “is one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this city.”