I rally wonder why this is not discussed on DU

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-phosphorus28nov28,1,1163967.story?coll=la-headlines-world

November 28, 2005

Use of Chemical in Iraq Ignites Debate
* Critics say civilians died in incendiary attacks. U.S. asserts white phosphorus was only used on insurgents.
By John Daniszewski and Mark Mazzetti, Times Staff Writers
BAGHDAD — Omar Ibrahim Abdullah went for a walk to get away from the heavy fighting in Fallouja a little over a year ago and, by his account, came across such a grotesque sight that he's been unable to banish it from his memory.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5459245

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5445489

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regime after all.

relative to the evil of the bush administration is quite lengthy. It takes a herculean effort to dissect them all. This would seemingly be a story to be praised at free republic whose members revel in the death and destruction and despair that republicans can share with the world all in the name of politics. Having said that, it has been discussed as it should be by wacky liberals who have a strong desire that such activities do not occur.

White phosphorus was talked about on several threads before Thanksgiving.

probably I should have said: this is one other thing which should not slip our minds.

What is known at the ground level has been pretty well fathomed out.

To get to the next level will take some military brass leaking that the WP use was ordered and by who- it will take a memo or email to prove it- and serious documentation of who got killed how in Fallujah a year ago.

Actually, WP is just a smaller story in a larger theme that American media are in denial about. Fallujah was supposed to be an 'example', a complete destruction of a rebel city that would be so painful to them that the rebellion would be demoralized and give up. This theory has never actually worked in Modern times because you'd have to couple it to genocide outright (something no country does because it licenses the world to destroy itself totally). But Right wing idiots in their occultic dogmas aka magical thinking about Will(power) and Absolute Evil and idolatry of Death always resort to this crap.