Walter and Blatham -- As you both know, I have been arguing since I joined this community that America had no business invading Iraq. Given that it had no such business, it goes without saying that the
approximately 30,000 dead Iraqi civilians are victims of a pointless massacre that the American government lied its nation into, as well as 40 other nations.
But
given that Mr.Bush and friends have lied the nation into a war just because they felt like fighting it anyway,
given that they have turned Iraq into a playground for terrorists which it wasn't before, and
given that the line between the general population and the insurgents is getting blurrier and blurrier -- given all that, it really
is a red herring to be shocked that this crime is being executed with white phosphorous as opposed to, say, machine guns, or chainsaws, or whatever. The war itself is the crime here; the specific tools of the criminals are barely relevant in comparison at all.