American Views Abroad


Wednesday, November 16, 2005
 
Once again George Monbiot digs down to the very heart of whether US troops use chemical weapons in Falluja. The answer is yes and the proof is damning in War Without Rules at
http://www.monbiot.com/. It is the US Army and a staff reporter from California embedded with the Marines during the siege of that city in April 2004 that reveal the use of white phosphorus. It is crucial to understand what happens when this substance is set free. Monbiot writes: 'White phosphorus is fat-soluble and burns spontaneously on contact with the air. ....If service members are hit by pieces of white phosphorus, it could burn right down to the bone.'

Now imagine children and pregnant women caught up in the siege. There isn't anyway they couldn't be caught up in it.

Riverbend's recent post dated November 6th talks about the agonies her country went through in the Iraq/Iran War. 'There isn't a single Iraqi family, I believe, that didn't lose a loved one, or several, to the war. ....In our family alone, we lost four men to that war - three were confirmed dead - and the fourth has been missing since 1983.' Further she writes: 'The agony of the long war with Iran is what makes the current situation in Iraq so difficult to bear especially this last year. The occupation has ceased to be American. It is American in face, and militarily, but in essence it has metamorphosed slowly but surely into an Iranian one.' It is very interesting reading. In her post of September 23rd she lists four links to other interesting Iraqi blogs, including an Iraqi blogger abroad. http://www.riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

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