Confirmed! U.S. Forces Used Incendiary Weapons on Iraqi's

The March edition of Field Artillery magazine, a U.S. Army publication, reveals that the U.S. military did in fact use the incendiary weapon white phosphorous in Fallujah, Iraq, a Daily Kos diarist has found.

"WP [i.e., white phosphorus rounds] proved to be an effective and versatile munition," the article's author wrote. "We used it for screening missions at two breeches and, later in the fight, as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes when we could not get effects on them with HE. We fired 'shake and bake' missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out."

A second publication, Infantry Magazine, also alleges that white phosphorous was used near the Iraqi city of Irbil. Newsroom sources tell RAW STORY that the New York Times will be running a short piece on the Italian documentarian whose video documented the weapon's use Thursday.

(This just makes me sick. What hypocrites we are. One of the talking points die hard Bush supporters keep repeating to this day about Iraq is "Saddam used chemical weapons on his own people!" Great. So now we're doing it instead. Wake up people - this government is committing these unspeakable acts in our name putting all of us at risk.)

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