Soldiers in Iraq know they are fighting and dying for a lie

oh, you Americans are so lucky! you can kick off Pres. Bush after three terms, whereas i'm stuck with Johnny for who knows how long.

Roxxxanne wrote:

You are saying that napalm is NOT banned?

Correct. Napalm is not banned.

WASHINGTON, August 10 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - The United States admitted dropping the internationally-banned incendiary weapon of napalm on Iraq, despite earlier denials by the Pentagon that the "horrible" weapon had not been used in the three-week invasion.

mans wrote:

oh, you Americans are so lucky! you can kick off Pres. Bush after three terms, whereas i'm stuck with Johnny for who knows how long.

No, we can "kick him off" after two. And, who is Johnny?

That is a distinction without a difference, napalm is banned, the question is NOT misleading and oralloy is in denial. As well, military spokespersons have stated that they haven't used napalm since the 70s and denied using it in Iraq.

oralloy wrote:

Roxxxanne wrote:

You are saying that napalm is NOT banned?

Correct. Napalm is not banned.

Wrong.

Quote:

WASHINGTON, August 10 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - The United States admitted dropping the internationally-banned incendiary weapon of napalm on Iraq, despite earlier denials by the Pentagon that the "horrible" weapon had not been used in the three-week invasion.

Well, Roxxx, if you look further into it, it becomes clear that the US never agreed to the sanctions of the UN, so internationally banned or not, our government had an 'out'.

Oralloy also says depleted uranium is not the cause of gulf war sickness because "The government told me so".

snood wrote:

Well, Roxxx, if you look further into it, it becomes clear that the US never agreed to the sanctions of the UN, so internationally banned or not, our government had an 'out'.

But we complied with the protocol (which is not a ban in any sense of the word) despite our having that out.

Article 2

Protection of civilians and civilian objects

1.It is prohibited in all circumstances to make the civilian population
as such, individual civilians or civilian objects the object of attack by
incendiary weapons.

2. It is prohibited in all circumstances to make any military objective
located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by
air-delivered incendiary weapons.

3. It is further prohibited to make any military objective located within
a concentration of civilians the object of attack by means of incendiary
weapons other than air-delivered incendiary weapons, except when such
military objective is clearly separated from the concentration of
civilians and all feasible precautions are taken with a view to limiting
the incendiary effects to the military objective and to avoiding, and in
any event to minimizing, incidental loss of civilian life, injury to
civilians and damage to civilian objects.

4. It is prohibited to make forests or other kinds of plant cover the
object of attack by incendiary weapons except when such natural elements
are used to cover, conceal or camouflage combatants or other military
objectives, or are themselves military objectives.

I am curious. Does anyone have an actual link to the poll questions? Or is this claiming they are bad quetsions based on thin air?

The use of napalm was not banned completely. It was only illegal if the military targets were near civilians or civilian objects.

Zogby developed the questions for the survey, following its time-honored principles of fairness and even-handedness, in order to produce the most accurate results possible. Once the survey instrument was completed, Le Moyne reviewed it and approved the script. Zogby maintained complete editorial control over the instrument at all times, under the direction of Pollster John Zogby himself.