(this may not be news to many here. i didn't know this was alleged; i'm horrified but unsurprised if it's true.)
today's Independent Online reports that new and overwhelming evidence is now available that proves US forces dropped illegal phosphorus bombs on Falujah in November 2004. the military claims a few bombs were used for illumination purposes; the dead and wounded demonstrate they were used to destroy the city.
from the article, by Independent reporter Peter Popham:
"But now new information has surfaced, including hideous photographs and videos and interviews with American soldiers who took part in the Fallujah attack, which provides graphic proof that phosphorus shells were widely deployed in the city as a weapon.
"In a documentary to be broadcast by RAI, the Italian state broadcaster, this morning, a former American soldier who fought at Fallujah says: "I heard the order to pay attention because they were going to use white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military jargon it's known as Willy 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."
(http://news.independent.co.uk/...)
this war is bad enough, and the slaughter of innocents hideous enough, without these illegal weapons of terror being used in our name. if 30 years ago Nixon's bombing of Cambodia was believed to be grounds for impeachment, then the use of these weapons is another reason Bush and his leadership team should spend the rest of the century in prison.