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To: jmc1969

If we tried, she'd be dead.


2 posted on 11/07/2005 9:44:44 AM PST by Mikey_1962
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To: Mikey_1962
White phosphorus has been a mainstay of mortar rounds and artillery since WWI - it is not chemical warfare in its usual interpretation - it is used because it burns through uniforms and into the skin. Its range is limited to the area of the blast.

Chemical warfare normally refers to use of a gas....such as mustard gas - which burns the lungs and has a totally indeterminate range - it can drift into civilian areas and kill them just as easily kill troops.

Just another hysterical, uninformed euro-lefty rant!!

28 posted on 11/07/2005 10:04:48 AM PST by HardStarboard (Read Stephen Hayes "Spooked White House" - Weekly Standard. It explains a an awful lot.)
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