The Exceptional Case of Fallujah

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Re: The Exceptional Case of Fallujah

@CM

Everybody knows that the siege of Fallujah was in fact war crimes. They used DU weapons and indiscriminately killed Civilians. The only problem is that the reporters on the ground were American and did not report on it.

Word.

@Doppleganger

I have talked to army people (there is actually a forum, though right winger, on the web) and they said that using DU weapons would be counterproductive and expensive, as the reason DU rounds are used is to penetrate thick armor like that of tanks. It leaves possibility of use of chemical & bio weapons by al-qaeda or the coalition but I haven’t heard about it. White phosphorus causes painful burns, as happened in Gaza, but i don’t think it causes cancer cases like this.

Yeah your quite right DU or more correctly for those who dont know… Depleted Uranium is nasty stuff. I have personally worked with it closely and can say that in terms of comparrison a golf ball size amount of DU can wiegh over a 2 Kilo’s for it’s one of the heaviest things you can fire and is effective at turning Tanks and Bunkers into matchwood.

DU definatley cuases cancer after long term exposure,( I begin to perspire heavily as I write this) those of you who can remember it’s use in large scale Tank battles of the 1991 Gulf War the original Operation Desert Storm will remember that battles like Khafji in Saudi Arabia were decided by the Coalitions use of DU shells. Many of the Veterans from that War on both sides continue to live with the after effects but unlike Khafji Falluja was a smaller battleground and most of the victims were indeed Civillian.

Falluja was the Stalingrad of the current Iraq war Operation Iraqi freedom (the Freedom is anything but real) and both sides commited horrendous attrocities however the US should have kept the higher Moral ground and not used what I would call Inhumane tactics. There were other options than to using such heavy handed tactics.

With regards to the use of White Phosphorus imagine a having your flesh eaten away and thats the effect White Phosphorous has it burns you to the bone… I knew a poor fellow who had a n accident with a type seventy seven grenade leaking on his hand… they amputated his arm at the elbow.

White Phosphorous is a chemical weapon though and DU is Nuclear. While we can see the effects of Phosphoruos almost instantly as it burns without ceasing and is made worse by oxygen so even water will make it worse… we still dont know the full effects of DU.

The World should get rid of these nasty weapons, if only wars were still fought with Melee weapons… or better still such disputes decided without wars at all… but one lives in hope.

Fallujah should not be forgotten though it was a war crime. I am not in support of the Extremists in Fallujah either there were cases of the Millitants torturing US soldiers too but niether side should have done what they did and in the end the Civilians suffered the most.