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November 08, 2005
Do as I Say, Not as I Do
Not only did the U.S. employ chemical weapons against the Iraqi people (as linked on today's STR home page), doing precisely that which our government accused Saddam Hussein of doing and thus justifying its war against his country. We find also that the U.S. is flying unmanned aerial drones over Iran. Saddam's phantom unmanned aerial drones were, of course, going to fly over Chicago and dump chemical weapons (such as white phosphorous, perhaps?) on the innocent folks of the Midwest. Those drone allegations, too, were used as justification for the war on Iraq.
I guess it's okay for our government to do these things because "we" are "good" and "they" (Iraqis and Iranians) are "bad."
Posted by Mike Tennant at November 8, 2005 10:43 AM
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As much as I have come to admire your scholarship, writing style, and passion Mike, you are wrong about this one.
WP isn't a chemical weapon. It is an incediary munition ("fire starter") whose purpose is to burn things just like napalm for example. Its use is not a war crime per se unless it's used to commit one, just as with an ordinary infantry rifle.
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at November 9, 2005 10:28 AM
Fair enough. I was going on what was in the article, which clearly states that "it was used as a chemical weapon in . . . Fallujah" and which implies that its use is a war crime. I know very little about weapons of any kind, so I'll take your word for it that this is not entirely accurate. WP does appear to have been used on civilians, which would, I think, constitute a war crime.
For some other interesting comments on the subject, see Casey Khan's entry on the LRC blog: http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/009276.html
Posted by: Mike Tennant at November 9, 2005 11:07 AM
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