A
1995 Pentagon document classifies white phosphorus as a
chemical weapon...and excoriates
Iraq for using it. Perhaps a conservative blogger would care to "explain" this document with a few strained rationalizations? That sort of thing is always good for a grim laugh.
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Meanwhile, don't know if folks saw this;
"The United States military used white phosphorus during its advance on Nassiriya, says BBC correspondent Adam Maynot in an interview with RaiNews24.
There was an attack, and three days later the Marines used white phosphorus on the center of the city. The people who sought help at the hospital had their skin in falling off in shreds because it was completely burned. These people were at home which rockets penetrated the walls of their homes; they saw an enormous white cloud.
http://nuralcubicle.blogspot.com/2005/11/chemical-don.html
I'm not a conservative, but I think I can fake it:
"That was the CLINTON Pentagon, or what was left of it, anyway."
"Saddam willy-peted his OWN people; we willy-peted OTHER people. Terrorists, even!"
"Why do you hate America?"
"9/11!!!!!!"
"That sort of thing", as you call it is, in fact, the basis of American foreign policy.
What we do is, by definition, legal, right and justified. It couldn't be otherwise, because "we" did it. At the same time, we deny our enemies even the right of self-defense, regarding their acts as inherently criminal (who else would attack the U.S., in response to a U.S. attack?) or (more recently) as terrorism.
It's a remarkable double-standard which is so widely accepted, and so apparently untroubling to the U.S. population, that it's become a virtual tautology.
Small wonder "we" rejected the ICC. So when we drop WP, it's a humanitarian venture, and WP someone ceases to be a chemical weapon. But When Saddam does it, well...
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