.Italians Release Video of Phosphorous Attack on Fallujah
"The Italian television network RAI has released a video that includes an interview with an ex-Marine and footage of the use of phosphorous bombs at Fallujah in November of 2004.
The issue is being discussed at Daily Kos.
White phosphorus is a form of incendiary bomb.
The Italian press is calling the phosphorus bombs "chemical weapons" and alleging that they were used indiscriminately and against civilian populations."
Juan Cole
posted by madtom at 11:55 AM
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I recently met an Italian, 35, doing 1 semester at UC Berkeley in Intl Relations. He was very articulate, educated, & intelligent, very anti-Iraq War, but when I pressed the issue, it was clear he had never given it any serious thought. The worst thing was, he THOUGHT he had given it serious thought, & considered himself very sophisticated in his worldview. But all he could do was mouth canards about 'not believing in war,' 'unilateralism,' etc, or, when forced to think, would change the subject by saying "Well, the US invented militant Islam anyway," or some such nonsense.
Exactly as I suspected about those millions of 'antiwar' protesters.
How quickly they forget the ravages of dictatorship and militant religiosity, I'm not really sure, but I think the Italians might have had something to do with militant religions. Just a little.
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