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Make no mistake that there are "plants" amongst the ranks here and more in the lurkers, but trolls and provocateurs are the least of our worries". "The people and bodies I have seen were definitely hit by fire weapons and had no other shrapnel wounds," he said. Posted by: Enough | Nov 11 2005 20:47 utc | 65, it is & remains an illegal war of occupation where all methods are being used & experimented including those that crash through international law & conventions with alarming velocity, so sordid has been this occupation & its many faces have included false flag operations, a reasoned history of such operations would leave little doubt that such things as death squads, targeted assassination, penetrated opposition grous, agent provocateurs etc etc are well within the limits of possibility & for my part feel that they are indeed probable, the bombings in jordan can be any number of things - it can be an extending of operations by the resistance - tho that this point that seems the least likely, it is the responsibility of a manipulated group which is 'owned' by the occupation forces, it is an intelligence operation directly coordinated by the occupation, nothing is too far fetched because all these possibilities exist & have existed with evidence during this immoral war & we have enough evidence from other interventions that it is well within the realms of possibility, i would like to believe that pat's army is an honest broker but i feel in the end they are tools of mad foreign policy just as ther german armies were complicit in a mad foreig policy & deliberately participated in illegal actions knowing they were illegal (this is very true in relation to the'commissar order' for example where there was great division in the general staff in particular on the question of legality), all efforts that try to bring light where only darkeness exists are cause for hope & for that dahl ought to be thanked by larger communities, Posted by: r'giap | Nov 11 2005 21:59 utc | 66, ample recent evidence has been provided by our own outraged & stan goff for example in haiti & i would strongly suggest his book on that subject that can be bought through counterpunch, interesting book just published from a colloque on the fabrication of the jihad which is a very nasty piece of neocon work, Posted by: r'giap | Nov 11 2005 22:08 utc | 67. I do ask that you remember this though. Remember the MoA mob recovered some of the rewrite just as it was being cast down the memory hole. A typical mission could be anywhere from 4-10-60 mixed rounds per fire mission and in Vietnam could last up to 3 days (intermittent fire). New napalm formula also used. Except me that is. ”And they said the people they are tending to in the refugee camps set up in the desert outside the city are telling horrible stories of suffering and death inside Fallujah.”, ... and at no point heard any talk of Shake 'n Bake. You sit in your spacious homes, stuffed with corporate products, overfed, safe, and morally superior, with the indecency to talk about the ending of war with such expertise. VG: What do you think of the argument that U.S. troops should stay in Iraq in order to prevent civil war? So whats the greater significance for the War on Terra ? I served with some of the finest men. A United States Marine:"It's kind of hard to imagine that someone would be FORCED to stay in when all the leaflets told you to get out. WASHINGTON (AFX) – The US today defended the use of white phosphorus munitions against insurgents in Iraq last year but denied civilians were targeted. It was also used in Vietnam by the U.S. and by Saddam Hussein in the 80' during the war against the Curds, Its use is permitted only in tracers, smoke-bombs or bomb fuses because of its easy I'll be back home next year. And then there were the first aid stations and ambulances. Incredibly, the Department of Defense released an … More importantly we have no way of knowing what that once beautiful example of humanity would think of their miserable and horrid death being splashed about the interweb. In military language it is called But I don't know too many people who have a 4x6 print of the city of fallujah.I don't know how to add in an image anymore apparently to HTML. here in Italy who have provided the gut-wrenching photos that move it from the realm of "conspiracy theorists" to the realm of fact. lol, Posted by: Soandso | Nov 12 2005 0:50 utc | 87. i wonder how much against conventions the use of WP would be deemed to be if a couple of towns in the US or europe were 'shaked and baked' in this way and those disfigured corpses in the pics were those of some blonde church-going bimbos instead of anonymous brown people in far-away lands. 1/3 is a VERY high estimate. Under the Laws of War and the GC irregular troops that do not wear uniforms, yet display personal weapons openly (i.e. Severing heads of civilians and posting the videos is a crime. US) public. You make me sick.If you hate the United States government so much and their military, why don't you stop supporting them by not paying taxes? Inertia, apathy, and willful ignorance will, I fear, be in the majority at least until something radical new shock arrives "where these live" to change that. But here we screw ourselves into the ceiling every month or so absolutely convinced that THIS TIME someone's going to the Hague, by God, or at least to impeachment. It is not a match where one keeps score by counting casualties on either side. source with enough credibility to reduce the "plausible deniability", and the "Field Artillery" article by Cobb, LaCour, and Hight certainly does that "with a vengeance". Despite an early victory over the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan, the two former Clinton administration officials say President George W. Bush's policies have created a new haven for terrorism in Iraq that escalates the potential for Islamic violence against Europe and the United States. The IRC estimates that at least 60% of those killed in the assault of Fallujah are women, children and elderly. All wars expose the worst of human nature, so move on with it! ", Posted by: remembereringgiap | Nov 12 2005 3:09 utc | 92. Nicholas Bogert, 22, of Morris, N.Y. Bogert is a mortar team leader who directed his men to fire round after round of high explosives and white phosphorus charges into the city Friday and Saturday, never knowing what the targets were or what damage the resulting explosions caused. "Marines, who put their lives on the line FOR YOU. I think that settles that argument. I consider myself a fairly intelligent person. But cover him in a chemical that will painfully burn his damn skin off until maybe he dies screaming an inhuman howl if enough of it got on him. The U.S. [military] is using tactics that heighten the probability of civil war by rushing through this Washington DC-imposed timeline for the political process. CNN, NBC, ABC, WAPO, NewsDay, etc). White Phosphorus (WP), known as Willy Pete, is used for signaling, screening, and incendiary purposes. is one of those freedoms that Bush really believes in fighting for. Bogert received coordinates of the target, plotted them on a map and called out the settings for the gun they call “Sarah Lee.”. We get the point, already.... ! What was the name of that corporation run by some Englishman which defence was putting zillions into? They say they have never seen what they’ve hit, nor did they talk about it as they dusted off their breakfast and continued their hilarious routine of personal insults and name-calling. If you would like more proof. Posted by: RossK | Nov 10 2005 7:00 utc | 21. These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid rich kids like George Bush? The last thing they want is to be in a court-martial. He repeatedly asked me why I pay taxes that support this criminal intervention. Posted by: DM | Nov 12 2005 0:14 utc | 78. It's not that they don't like the idea of forced labor. As far as the forced labor issue goes, I don't know when that's dated. Yeah right normal people are always overwhelmed by gratitude after you've blown their town to smithereens and wasted a substantial portion of the population. War is an atrocity. The written record is what counts, radio or television is of transitory, fleeting impact (IMHO). According to globalsecurity.org: "The burns usually are multiple, deep, and variable in … With fellow Marines between them and their (4) Burster Type White phosphorus (WP M110A2) rounds burn with intense heat and emit dense white smoke. In fact they had to leave their homes and everything they owned to be strip searched categorised, coded and humiliated. @ Pat, Outraged and all contributors to this thread. I look forward to the exchange of views, and second YOU PUT YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE FOR CRIMINALS. Well then, please do look back on your murdering raping and pillaging and consider it worthwhile. Nothing else will do. Shooting unarmed civilians is a crime. That bears no meaning whatsoever when insurgents lure out American troops with it and then open fire. The U.S. pulling out is going to begin the process of stabilization in Iraq as well as be the first move to give Iraqis true sovereignty. As a gunner, how can artillery 'Shake and Bake' fire missions be in any way considered 'precision' weapons, when the actual non-combatant occupants of a single building or for that matter a city block cannot be determined in advance ... only after the bodies are collected ? that the winning parties to that war signed these conventions means that what their people saw was horrible even for the standards of battle hardened officers. Dr Ahmed, who worked in Fallujah until December 2004, said: "In the centre of the Jolan quarter they were removing entire homes which have been bombed, meanwhile most of the homes that were bombed are left as they were.". Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? "So they definitely used fire weapons, especially in Jolan district.". For air-strikes napalm (new or old) is routinely substituted for WP. @Hannah K. O'Luthon That would be preferable, but I'm too pessimistic to think it will come to pass. combustibility. It is an element that burns when it comes into contact with oxygen and it consumes the molecules that contain it (oxygen). This is the best discussing of the White Phosphorous issue on the web. WV: World Vision, Posted by: Enough | Nov 11 2005 18:18 utc | 49, Posted by: Enough | Nov 11 2005 18:21 utc | 50, ”Several of our Red Cross workers have just returned from Fallujah since the Americans won't let them into the city,”, Speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of U.S. military reprisal, a high-ranking official with the Red Cross in Baghdad told IPS that ”at least 800 civilians” have been killed in Fallujah so far" Most things re warfare, even this, one is often able to compartmentalize and deal with abstractly, objectively. Especially typical used on enemy forces 'dug-in' in bunkers, foxholes, trenches, fortified buildings. Owning a gun is ok. The issue is even more stark in Iraq where images of USuk forces corpses are supressed but despite UN/Amnesty/Human Rights watch warnings photos of raghead corpses and casualties are still leaked to a compliant media. Oh well, who knows. Debs is dead. Oh, and if the billiions for the reconstruction of Iraq had created jobs and acceptable conditions for Iraqis (clean water, electricity, basic and free clinics as existed before, fields full of green, fruit, dates, to mention just a few things...) , there might -just might- be no ‘insurgency’ today. And so is the Administration. NZers were bombarded with images of staunch Brits standing up to the Blitz where lots of incendiaries were dropped on civilian areas. Some Marines don't like the idea of using forced labor in Fallujah. Obviously, the effect of such deadly clouds weren’t just psychological in nature. The U.S. War Crimes Act considers grave breaches of Geneva to be war crimes... - Marjorie Cohn, a contributing editor to truthoout is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, executive vice president of the National Lawyers Guild, and the U.S. representative to the executive committee of the American Association of Jurists. Posted by: Outraged | Nov 10 2005 0:34 utc | 5, & it is essential that we are reminded in the physical sense - in this instance seeing the photograph & filmed evidence of what is being done, the way this war is being fought by the occupation forces is similar to the einsatzgruppen in that 'normal' moral boundaries have been left, far, far behind, they do this & then are surprised that this same resistance is capable of using forward areas such as jordan as other bases of contact. Posted by: Outraged | Nov 11 2005 13:31 utc | 40. @monolycus "I just had a horrible epiphany earlier about the watchlists. Shake and Bake means First used during Vietnam War and revived in Iraq to refer to attacks using a combination of conventional bombs, cluster bombs (CBU), and napalm. Talk about varying the script a little! 90% ? It pretty much says that all interaction has been limited, discourteous and patronising. WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - U.S. terrorism experts Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon have reached a stark conclusion about the war on terrorism: the United States is losing. However, the CCW also applies to any weapon that would otherwise be considered 'conventional' when it meets the definitions re 'toxic chemical' and actual employment (method of warfare) by utilization of its chemical properties. whatever. My gut was telling me this was a troll when I saw the sobriquet, but the content is telling me another story. Joking and rousting each other like boys just seconds before, the men were instantly all business. 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. Posted by: A United States Marine | Nov 11 2005 23:43 utc | 73, Posted by: A United States Marine | Nov 11 2005 23:44 utc | 74. The way white phosphorus munitions are used determines if it falls in the category of chemical weapons, says Professor Paul Rodgers from the … He has also written some 20 Briefing Papers and co-authored over 10 Evaluation papers for the delegations participating in the Ad Hoc Group in Geneva. Posted by: Debs is dead | Nov 11 2005 23:28 utc | 72, Do you believe that Captain James T. Cobb, First Lieutenant Christopher A. LaCour and Sergeant First Class William H. Hight are lying when they authored "We fired “shake and bake” missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out.". Re Hallabjah, from the Federation of American Scientists ... As the United Kingdom is a co-Depositary of the BTWC, it would be reasonable to expect the UK to show a lead in implementing this element of the Final Declaration. There's a picture somewhere on my computer of a family coming out of the house as a Marine patrol is passing by, and they're just gesturing the people to go back inside. I'll move on with it when the last soldier occupying Iraq moves on, reparations are paid, an apology is delivered and the mass-murdering criminals who engineered this insanity are brought to justice. Man cannot understand the capricious horror of war so he has to”compartmentalize and deal with it abstractly, objectively”. Do you even know WHY rounds are dropped? He asked to be referred to simply as Dr Ahmed because of fears of reprisals for speaking out. Hence the talk of cringing gratitude etc. "wow i messed up the italics on that one". Maybe there was a party somewhere that I wasn't invited to cause I didn't see 1/3 of the civilians there. But then again we are the worlds sole remaining Superpower and our elites consider themselves Ubermenschen, and needless to say above any law, even their own. No redeeming social value. The Centre of Research on Globalization grants permission to cross-post Global Research articles on community internet sites as long the source and copyright are acknowledged together with a hyperlink to the original Global Research article. Weapons Free, explained Sites, "means the Marines can shoot whatever they see - it's all considered hostile." You have the nerve to question those who took an oath to give up for their lives for the protection of your country? copyright owner. Posted by: Pat | Nov 10 2005 2:48 utc | 15. i would imagine we would have some footage of the citizens coming up and thanking you for the searches. Free fire zones, and indiscriminate killing of civilians, which constitute willful killing, are grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions. Your politics are your view, your opinion. My freinds and I are planning to buy billboard space and we will continue to write.... Posted by: Enough | Nov 10 2005 2:18 utc | 12. On additional thought. See you in hell. . - Peter Kaiser, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. ... The phrase reminds of the fragments of Thai, middle aged drunken sex tourists pick up and use around Patpong . I've typed this long enough, and it will just be lost in the endless sea of webforums. at Hue, Bagdhad or Fallujah; they justified their callous indifference by calling the Bagdhad citizenry thieves. Link. I served with some of the finest men. We fired ‘shake and bake’ missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out.” In other words the claim by the US Government that White Phosphorus was used only for illumination at Fallujah had been pre-emptively debunked by the Army. An up close look at the M110A1 WP shell, with the impact of the shell. White Phosphorus-- AKA Willy Pete (WP) Well, now that the cat is out of the bag and all the major networks are carrying it, I remember when the ground offensive began and a Marine buddy of mine and I were watching the live coverage when I witnessed an air burst munition being used. It is a conventional weapon. Okay. No such false illusions here. Does the majority actually give a damn about some demonized 'ragheads', 'sand niggers' ? We fired “shake and bake” missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out.". So let em fail if that is what will happen; you may assist in that failure in subtle ways, but don't get drawn into pointless arguments. These people ransacked through peoples homes, used them to stash weapons and such. It's that they worry that the Fallujans, already hateful, couldn't be "effectively coerced": When they heard of the proposal to require men to work, some Marines were skeptical that an angry public would work effectively if coerced. anyways, if you haven't received enemy fire from insurgents, I don't think you have a sense of reality of what's going on. Are our soldiers warriors or button pushers of death from afar ? It is against the law of land warfare to employ WP against personnel targets. We fired 'shake and bake' missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE [i.e., high explosives] to take them out." White Phosphorus can be used to destroy the enemy's equipment or to limit his vision. Col Venables just confirmed it. Sites heard Staff Sgt. This (incredible stupidid) distincting is what makes this important. We report the opinion of Peter Kaiser, spokesman for the UN agency on the prohibition of the use, production, and storage of chemical weapons who was asked by Maurizio Torrealta if White Phosphorous is a prohibited substance... (Translation of the video published here beside the text) The Foreign Affairs Committee is recommended to: (a) To urge that the Government should take steps to increase public awareness of the danger to safety and security from chemical and biological weapons and that anyone working on the acquisitions, development or use of such weapons is guilty of a criminal offence; (b) To encourage the Government to mount an initiative to ensure that the scientific and technical professions—chemists, biologists, doctors, immunologists, virologists and scientists and engineers in general—are aware of the total prohibition of the use of chemicals, toxins or biological agents as weapons. bake” missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out. 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