"THE HORROR"
Covering up Napalm in Iraq

From ZNet:

Defense Minister, Adam Ingram, admitted that the US had misled the British high-command about the use of napalm, but he would not comment on the extent of the cover up. The use of firebombs puts the US in breach of the 1980 Convention on Certain Chemical Weapons (CCW) and is a violation the Geneva Protocol against the use of white phosphorous, “since its use causes indiscriminate and extreme injuries especially when deployed in an urban area.”

Regrettably, “indiscriminate and extreme injuries” are a vital part of the American terror-campaign in Iraq; a well-coordinated strategy designed to spawn panic through random acts of violence.

It’s clear that the military never needed to use napalm in Iraq. Their conventional weaponry and laser-guided technology were already enough to run roughshod over the Iraqi army and seize Baghdad almost unobstructed. Napalm was introduced simply to terrorize the Iraqi people; to pacify through intimidation. Cheney, Rumsfeld and Negroponte are old-hands at terrorism, dating back to their counterinsurgency projects in Nicaragua and El Salvador under the Reagan Administration. They know that the threat of immolation serves as a powerful deterrent and fits seamlessly into their overarching scheme of rule through fear. Terror and deception are the rotating parts of the same axis; the two imperatives of the Bush-Cheney foreign policy strategy.

Napalm in Falluja

The US also used napalm in the siege of Falluja as was reported in the UK Mirror (“Falluja Napalmed”, 11-28-04) The Mirror said, “President George Bush has sanctioned the use of napalm, a deadly cocktail of polystyrene and jet-fuel banned by the United Nations in 1980, will stun the world…. Reports claim that innocent civilians have died in napalm attacks, which turn victims into human fireballs as the gel bonds flames to flesh…Since the American assault on Falluja there have been reports of ‘melted’ corpse, which appeared to have napalm injuries.”

“Human fireballs” and “melted corpses”; these are the real expressions of Operation Iraqi Freedom not the bland platitudes issuing from the presidential podium.

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At this point, rarely do I hear something about this war that makes me just stop and go "wow." Hearing about the Pentagon's use of napalm on Iraqi civilians did exactly that. It is beyond ironic that anti-Saddam rhetoric noted again and again that the deposed dictator used chemical weapons, and here we are using chemical weapons. This is sick. It's light years beyond the torture scandal--if Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are evidence of the depraved immorality of the Bush administration, then the use of napalm takes us into archetypal Satanic territory. As of this moment, the Nazi metaphor is dead. This is beyond Hitler.

This fits in very nicely with New Yorker reporter Sy Hersh's assertion that these pacification "operations" are not at all about taking out insurgents: "The idea is to go to major cities. They did Fallujah, they're doing Ramadi right now, take it down, make the people of the Sunni heartland more afraid of the American/Iraqi Mukhabarat than they are of the resistance." In short, these insurgent hunts are terrorism, plain and simple, the kind of strategy used by Nazis in occupied Greece and Yugoslavia, but on a much larger scale with more horrific weaponry. It's horrible.

I don't really know what else to say.

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