Originally published December 27 2005
Political analyst polls opinion about the justness of U.S. policy in Iraq
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
George Monbiot, author of "Poisoned Arrows" and "No Man's Land," discusses American policy in Iraq dating from the beginning of the war, and talks with political experts to get a sense of how U.S. policies are faring among the intellectual elite.
The media couldn't have made a bigger pig's ear of the white phosphorus story.
It claimed the corpses in the pictures it ran "showed strange injuries, some burnt to the bone, others with skin hanging from their flesh ...
I too possess a biology degree, and I am as well-qualified to determine someone's cause of death as I am to perform open-heart surgery.
We don't yet know how these people died.
But there is hard evidence that white phosphorus was deployed as a weapon against combatants in Falluja.
As this column revealed last Tuesday, U.S. infantry officers confessed that they had used it to flush out insurgents.
On Tuesday afternoon, a Pentagon spokesman admitted to the BBC that white phosphorus "was used as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants."
U.N. conventions, the Times asserted, "ban its use on civilian but not military targets."
The use of the toxic properties of a chemical as a weapon is illegal, whoever the target is.
The Pentagon argues that white phosphorus burns people, rather than poisoning them, and is therefore covered only by the protocol on incendiary weapons, which the U.S. has not signed.
As Peter Kaiser of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons told the BBC, "If ...
... These reports of possible WP chemical weapon attacks spread quickly ...
Anyone who has seen those photos of the lines of blind veterans at the remembrance services for the first world war will surely understand the point of international law, and the dangers of undermining it.
But we shouldn't forget that the use of chemical weapons was a war crime within a war crime within a war crime.
Before attacking the city in November last year, the Marines stopped the men "of fighting age" from leaving.
Many women and children stayed as well: the Observer's correspondent estimated that between 30,000 and 50,000 civilians were left in the city.
Thermobaric, or "fuel-air" weapons, it says, form a cloud of volatile gases or finely powdered explosives.
"This cloud is then ignited and the subsequent fireball sears the surrounding area while consuming the oxygen in this area.
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