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28. Now where did Putin get that idea - oh wait!

Wed Mar 23, 2022, 12:13 PM

Mar 2022

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/u-s-official-admits-phosphorus-used-as-weapon-in-iraq-1.557818

A spokesman for the U.S. military has admitted that soldiers used white phosphorus as an "incendiary weapon" while trying to flush out insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of Fallujah last year.

"White phosphorus is a conventional munition," Lt.-Col. Barry Venable told the British Broadcasting Corporation. "It is not a chemical weapon. They are not outlawed or illegal."

He added that though used mostly to provide smokescreens and flashes of light, in the Fallujah battle, "it was used as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants."

High-ranking U.S. officials had earlier insisted that the substance, which can burn skin to the bone, was used only to help illuminate battle scenes.
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⚡️ Russia uses white phosphorus bombs in Hostomel and Irpin. [View all] Donkees Mar 2022 OP

Photo: Donkees Mar 2022 #1

Rain from Hell. calimary Mar 2022 #19

Add it to the list COL Mustard Mar 2022 #2

Strap your self up fellow ENTS.. if this is true, we are going to war... Peacetrain Mar 2022 #3

How do you figure? ColinC Mar 2022 #4

I don't think they would Buckeyeblue Mar 2022 #5

If you are so excited to be sent to war sarisataka Mar 2022 #7

That is desertion. I am not a deserter ColinC Mar 2022 #9

So you are currently active duty? nt sarisataka Mar 2022 #10

Si ColinC Mar 2022 #11

Which branch are you with and how long sarisataka Mar 2022 #12

Too many details. ColinC Mar 2022 #13

So your solution is in sight sarisataka Mar 2022 #15

Just a t shirt??? ColinC Mar 2022 #16

I was USMC sarisataka Mar 2022 #17

I don't think White Phosphorus is considered a "chemical attack", but it is a war crime Fiendish Thingy Mar 2022 #14

Why would we go to war over use of a weapon sarisataka Mar 2022 #6

Quite so. WP isn't exactly nerve gas in terms of the political fallout from its use. Dial H For Hero Mar 2022 #8

+1, uponit7771 Mar 2022 #18

Well we should maybe give him Poland 48656c6c6f20 Mar 2022 #20

K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Mar 2022 #21

I'd consider it a chemical weapon........ KS Toronado Mar 2022 #22

Use chemicals to murder civilians to liberate them from Nazis IronLionZion Mar 2022 #23

White phosphorous Traildogbob Mar 2022 #24

White phosphorus was considered legal when US forces used them in Falluja: Gaugamela Mar 2022 #25

Link ? left-of-center2012 Mar 2022 #26

Right here malaise Mar 2022 #29

that link is for Iraq left-of-center2012 Mar 2022 #33

Here's the correct ink left-of-center2012 Mar 2022 #35

Israel did some 2008-09 war in Gaza. Pics abound on BBC, Al Jazeera. The world turned a blind eye childfreebychoice Mar 2022 #27

Now where did Putin get that idea - oh wait! malaise Mar 2022 #28

White phosphorus is great for killing ducks too! Submariner Mar 2022 #30

saw that coming. Shit. librechik Mar 2022 #31

WP is generally legal to use BGBD Mar 2022 #32

Here's the link left-of-center2012 Mar 2022 #34