Napalming Iraq
I, truly, hope this is completely untrue. It is unbelievable:
The Un-shocking revelation of this story is that the US lied to its primary ally in the War on Terror. Hell, the US lied to her people.
American officials lied to British ministers over the use of "internationally reviled" napalm-type firebombs in Iraq.Wow. Has the US dropped these weapons in Iraq? The primary purpose of such a bomb is as a fear-deterrent type weapon... which... I shudder to say... is intended to strike "terror" into the hearts of the enemies. Draw your own conclusions.
Yesterday's disclosure led to calls by MPs for a full statement to the Commons and opened ministers to allegations that they held back the facts until after the general election.
Despite persistent rumours of injuries among Iraqis consistent with the use of incendiary weapons such as napalm, Adam Ingram, the Defence minister, assured Labour MPs in January that US forces had not used a new generation of incendiary weapons, codenamed MK77, in Iraq.
But Mr 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," he told Mr Cohen. "I regret to say that I have since discovered that this is not the case and must now correct the position."
Mr Ingram said 30 MK77 firebombs were used by the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in the invasion of Iraq between 31 March and 2 April 2003. They were used against military targets "away from civilian targets", he said. This avoids breaching the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), which permits their use only against military targets.
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The MK77 bombs, an evolution of the napalm used in Vietnam and Korea, carry kerosene-based jet fuel and polystyrene so that, like napalm, the gel sticks to structures and to its victims. The bombs lack stabilising fins, making them far from precise.
The Un-shocking revelation of this story is that the US lied to its primary ally in the War on Terror. Hell, the US lied to her people.
posted by General Stan at 12:19 PM
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I suppose that I have little doubt in the credibility of this report; there doesn't seem to be anything that makes me think it's an impossibility.
Apart from the vacuous moral situation, what is shocking about it to me is that the US so blatantly ignored their key ally in the "Coalition of the Willing." Obviously Paulau didn't have any bargaining power sending in their bomb-sniffing monkeys and margaritas, but that the US would so aggressively mislead the only country that gave this affair operative "multilateralism" in any kind of a global sense is ridiculous to me.
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