[lit-ideas] Re: Willie Pete
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:04:22 -0500
Here's the Reuters link:
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-11-08T170109Z_01_MCC861178_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-WEAPONS.xml
which cites:
RAI posted the full report, including television images, at
http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/
Just had to laugh at Andreas' assertion that we used poison gas.
Maybe we used a crowd dispersal agent like CS to get some of the
insurgents out of their rat holes, but poison gas is just too
clumsy and indiscriminate a weapon for general use ... unless
like Saddam you want to take out an entire town.
And yeah, getting burned by napalm or white phosphorus is a
terrible and grisly thing, almost as bad as randomly killing
civilians with IEDs.
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