Cheney and MDIXON like to lick dead bodies for breakfast.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=h7izi9LaYyI
""The U.S. is using white phosphorus, a chemical munition known more
commonly in the military as Willy Peter.
White phosphorus is a chemical weapon.
During the battle of Fallujah in November 2004, the United States
used white phosphorus in"shake and bake" missions to flush out
insurgent positions. Such use potentially violates the Geneva
Convention on Biological and Chemical Weapons of 1980 banning the use
of incendiary
weapons in civilian areas. (The U.S. has yet to sign this part of the
Convention.)
While the Pentagon initially denied using white phosphorus in any
capacity other than as an illumination round, reports from embedded
U.S. journalists and a March 2005 Field Artillery magazine article
published by the U.S. military said just the opposite. These two
sources, coupled with Italian media and eyewitness accounts of
civilians in Fallujah burned to
the bone, forced the Pentagon to change from suggesting purity of
motive ("we
don't use napalm or chemical weapons") to a more nuanced and
legalistic terminology. Now, it seems, white phosphorus was "used as
an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants." Because the U. S. is
not a signatory to the 1980 Geneva Convention and has challenged the
legal definition of chemical weapons, the Pentagon now claims that
white phosphorus is "not a chemical weapon" and therefore "not
outlawed or illegal.""
"'For the Pentagon, at least, the "shake and bake" missions are
a "potent
psychological weapon" that will drive the enemy "out of their holes."
The use of white phosphorus has
a particularly brutal history. During the war in Vietnam, the U.S.
used white
phosphorous as an improved form of napalm, terrorizing enemies. Then,
as now, it was touted as a psychological tool of warfare necessary to
subdue enemy hamlets.
Unlike napalm, which in Vietnam left villagers and enemies alike with
massive burns all over their bodies, white phosphorus burns down to
the bone.
Le The Thrung, a Vietnamese doctor studying white phosphorus burns in
1969,describes its effects on the skin: "[b]urning phosphorus
produces 800-1,000 degrees centigrade heat.
Scattered phosphorus particles go on consuming themselves and deepen
burn
wounds." Next,chemical compounds "create a chemical burn, like an
acid, drawing water from the cells. This process generates great pain
in the nervous system." Finally, white phosphorus compounds oxygenate
and penetrate "the blood stream and white blood cells in the dermis,
subdermis, and deeper skin layers." This creates what he
calls an "organic toxicity [that] blocks off all blood circulation
with the burn area.""
"'It wasn't just medical professionals noting the brutal effects of
white
phosphorus. A U.S serviceperson, at the height of the Vietnam War,
remarked, "We sure are pleased with those backroom boys at Dow. The
original product wasn't so
hot-if the gooks were quick they could scrape it off. So the boys
started adding polystyrene-now it sticks like shit to a blanket. But
then if the gooks jumped under water it stopped burning, so they
started adding Willy Peter so's to make it burn better. It'll even
burn under water now. And one drop is enough; it'll
keep on burning right down to the bone so they die anyway from
phosphorus
poisoning."
"This is what our military and political leaders currently define as
a "potent psychological weapon?" These are the actions that citizens
of empire are to support and legitimize, even if tacitly, in the name
of spreading democracy and
securing our own nebulous borders?
No, this is not about our national feelings of moral fortitude. This
is about civilians and "enemies" alike having chemicals dropped on
them like rain and their skin bubbling, melting, wasting away with no
way to scrape off the pain of oxidizing phosphorus and no way to
cauterize the slow, painful melting into the nervous system and
bloodstream. No, for those getting "smoked out of their
holes," there is very little, if anything, psychological about Willy
Peter. ""
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