[lbo-talk] shake & bake

boddi satva lbo.boddi at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 22:50:28 PST 2005


This article is on a recent Senate debate on what weapons are allowable in combat. It seems insane that burning people to death with white phosphorous is not considered chemical warfare and using tear gas is. WP is an appalling weapon and it should clearly be banned from use in anti-personnel munitions.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521290/posts

On 11/16/05, Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, November 16, 2005 1:06 PM [PDT],
> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>
> > "We don't target any civilians with any of our weapons. And to
> > suggest that U.S. forces were targeting civilians with these weapons
> > would simply be wrong," Whitman said.
>
>
> That's right... The area is the Iraqi equivalent of a free fire zone and
> everyone within it is an enemy combatant... No civilians killed because
> there are no civilians... even the males, aged 15-45 that attempted to
> leave and weren't allowed to go. They die first, I'm sure.
>
> FWIW, the last time I checked, the median age of an Iraqi Male was around
> 15.
>
> The extermination of generations of Iraqi males is in full swing, but it's
> OK,
> there are plenty of westernized Iraqis to replace them as soon as we
> stabilize
> the area... build a few apartheid walls, and socially control, through
> brutality,
> coercion, or other means, the remaining indigenous population of the
> country.
>
> Just... like... Israel.
>
> Leigh
>
>
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