In response to a blog of mine in which I made fun of George Bush Junior a friend of mine wrote to me, oh christiaan, it’s sad that you enjoy other’s people misery!
This surprised me; to me Bush is not some other person.
To me he’s a very important person, a war criminal to be precise. Below you’ll find photos of real misery, of Iraqi people who have been burnt to the bone by chemical weapons because this person and others like him continue to hold positions of power, because the rest of us allow them to.
Back in June I wrote about an attempted cover up by cowards in the Pentagon regarding the use of firebombs (a.k.a. Napalm) in Iraq.
Now RAI, Italy’s state-owned radio and television broadcasting corporation, has broadcast a documentary—Fallujah - the hidden massacre—that details the use of white phosphorus against Iraqi people during the U.S. assault on Fallujah in November last year.
It’s available online at RAI’s News 24 website or on Information Clearing House.
Apart from showing the heinous damage wrought by the U.S. bombardment of Fallujah, and the carnage to Iraqi people, some of whom lay sleeping, the documentary also uses witness accounts from former U.S. soldiers, Fallujah residents, video footage and photographs, to support its claim that contrary to U.S. State Department denials, white phosphorous was used indiscriminately on the city, causing terrible injuries to Iraqi people, including women and children.
In the documentary a former U.S. soldier who fought at Fallujah comments, ‘I heard the order to pay attention because they were going to use white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military jargon it’s known as Whiskey Pete. Phosphorus burns bodies, in fact it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone … I saw the burned bodies of women and children. Phosphorus explodes and forms a cloud. Anyone within a radius of 150 metres is done for.’
On top of this a document in the report claims to prove that the U.S. forces have used Mark 77 firebombs—the direct successor to Napalm—in the bombing of Iraq. As I pointed out in my blog in June, Colonel James Alles, commander of Marine Air Group 11, has already confirmed its use on Iraqi soldiers during the invasion:
We napalmed both those [bridge] approaches. Unfortunately there were people there … you could see them in the [cockpit] video. They were Iraqi soldiers. It’s no great way to die. The generals love napalm. It has a big psychological effect.
Photos sourced from RAI News 24.
Update, 29 Sep 2008, a few links added:
- Wikipedia | White phosphorus use in Iraq
- Wikipedia | Mark 77 bomb
- U.S. Army handbook published in 1999 stating that the use of white phosphorus burster bombs against enemy personnel is “against the law of land warfare.”
- U.S. denies use of white phosphorus in Iraq | 15 November 2005
- Dept. of Defense spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Barry Venable confirms white phosphorus used in Iraq | 16 November 2005
- Escalating rate of birth deformities in Fallujah caused by white phosphorus? | 29 September 2009
This behavior is disgusting, and is unfortunately the sad reality once you leave the United States and enter into areas such as this.
Too bad your story is a complete sham and a lie. You’re only repeating a fabricated story from a mock Al Jazeera site. It makes for fun headlines though.
Actually it’s a documentary film by Sigfrido Ranucci and Maurizio Torrealta and first aired, as noted in my post, on Italy’s RAI state television network on November 8, 2005.
So let me guess, your preferred choice for fabricated stories is Fox News?
To be frank, judging from your Amazon profile, you’re not one to be going around accusing people of believing in fabricated stories. You do, after all, believe in one of the greatest fabricated stories there is, described, incidentally, by the likes of Einstein as a childish superstition.
There are far left liars in Italy too — the documentary is not a documentary but a fabrication and no, I do not watch Fox news - nor am I a Republican or Neo Con or any of that nonsense - what I am, though is dedicated to the truth - you do not fight Bush lies with bigger lies - you use the truth and you don’t exagerate. Think you could adhere to that standard. There were no chemical weapons used in Iraq - a chemical weapon by definition of the UN Sponsored Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission is the use of a gaseous agent that kills people. Such agents are Tabun, Sarin, VX nerve gasses; others are Chlorine gas (WW-I), Mustard Gas, etc.
Other fellow, beat up by the blogger, write to me -
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As a marine who has done 2 tours in Iraq I have witnessed all kinds of things but none of which you have written about. Roger is right you are gullable and foolish person to believe what you hear and not try to discover the truth for yourself. Any time you want to see what Iraq is really like how about you ask some one who has been there and witnessed it.
I’ve added a few links to the post above for anybody interested.
Roger and Mike, in case you didn’t know, there is no argument about whether white phosphorus has been used by the U.S. military in Iraq. Its use has been confirmed by reporters and the U.S. military, including by Dept. of Defense spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Barry Venable. And Colonel James Alles’ report that Mark 77 bombs—the direct successor to napalm—have been used in Iraq has also been confirmed by the UK Ministry of Defense.
If you and the U.S. military want to try and argue that everything is just fine because white phosphorus—which can burn down to the bone and was used along side Napalm in Vietnam—is technically not a Chemical Weapon well that’s your choice, and a choice I find somewhat repugnant.
If you want to also argue that these weapons weren’t used against civilians, well, you have a lot of Iraqis who will tell you otherwise, especially in Fallujah where white phosphorus is confirmed as having been deployed on 15 November, 2005 in urban areas where there were high concentrations of civilians, during Operation Phantom Fury (November 2004-January 2005).
I’ve been to Iraq Mike. I was there before you and your disgraceful government turned it into hell, all based on a pack of lies.