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White Phosphorous. WP proved to be an effective and versatile munition. We used it for screening missions at two breeches and, later in the fight, as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes when we could not get effects on them with HE. We fired "shake and bake" missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out.
Field Artillery | TF 2-2 IN FSE AAR: Indirect Fires in the Battle of Fallujah
Remember, the HE (High Explosive) referred to includes bunker busters. But that's beside the point right now. The mainstream media are eventually dragging themselves off their butts to report—not from the front line of Falluja a year ago, but from their armchairs after a screening of an Italian public-broadcaster TV documentary, Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre—the indiscriminate use of napalm and white phosphorus [alt: phosphorous] by U.S. troops. Trapped like rats in a trap, fighters and civilians who chose to remain in Falluja last November—or were forced by their executioners to await their slaughter—stood no chance against the most horrendous chemical weapons known to man.
So vile are these instruments of mass destruction, they are banned worldwide—the United States excepted, of course. I suppose the U.S. could argue the peace-keeping nature of its forces in Iraq, but that—like MK 77 Mod 5 and white phosphorous ("shake and bake" or Willy Pete—though Jeff Englehart clearly says 'Whisky Pete' in the documentary)—won't wash.
Still smelling good in the morning...
And so tell me... a year and a week after the immolation of Falluja, and only after an Italian film crew has cobbled together a documentary from material freely available on the Web, why is it the British media that, once again, 'break' the story? As is the case in so many instances throughout history, where are the Americans (bearing in mind an American DoD publication published the full story in April, 2005)? And what is this bullshit of napalm (MK 77's Orwellian incarnation) being used only in Falluja? Photographs of bodies burnt to the bone by white phosphorous and napalm have been on the Web since the illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq, a country roasted or blown apart by every conceivable type of ordinance or munition for more than a decade in an internationally condoned turkey shoot. Why has there been no outcry to now?
By way of explanation, let's look at how the NY 911 WTC implosions are only now starting to surface or make the rounds as common knowledge. Looking at Professor Jones's unedited 'paper' and his field of research (don't they teach these academics to write?), I'm boggled at his reliance on, again, freely available and much-viewed Web material. Nevertheless, and despite the books, lectures, and analysis done by the likes of David Ray Griffin and Paul Thompson, the patently obvious case for an 'inside job' is only now gaining currency. Are people dumb or what?
Nope. They're compliant and complicit.
Few Iraqis ever doubted the American use of chemical weapons in Falloojeh. We’ve been hearing the terrifying stories of people burnt to the bone for well over a year now. I just didn’t want it confirmed.
River | Baghdad Burning
