<div> </div> <div>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. </div>   <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521290/posts">http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521290/posts</a> <div>On 11/16/05, Leigh Meyers <<a href="mailto:leighcmeyers@gmail.com">leighcmeyers@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Wednesday, November 16, 2005 1:06 PM [PDT], Doug Henwood <<a href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">dhenwood@panix.com </a>> 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 ___________________________________ <a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </blockquote> </div>