You can see the Italian documentary about the US flattening of Fallujah, including the charge that we used white posphorus as a weapon, here in English. It’s half an hour and Gianluca, who passed me the link, warns that it’s “quite disgusting.”

You know what’s also quite disgusting? That the US did not sign the 1980 Geneva Conventions protocol banning its use. I understand that white phosphorus is good for lighting up battle scenes, but the risks — and the temptations — are too strong. Also, it makes us look like heartless warmongers. [Tags: iraq whitePhosphorus war fallujah]

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