Is anybody surprised? The US used chemical weapons in Iraq

Italian investigative journalists have discovered that the US used the chemical weapon white phosphorus known in military circles as willy pete against Sunni civilians. If you follow these things, you'll realize that Sunnis are the onces who most oppose the current US occupation of Iraq. They are also more likely to support Saddam Hussein as he is also a Sunni.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/11/7/11819/9522
http://www.repubblica.it/2005/k/sezioni/esteri/iraq71/rainews/rainews.html


If you read the article, you'll notice this quote about halfway through:

Avevo raccolto testimonianze sull'uso del fosforo e del Napalm da alcuni profughi di Falluja che avrei dovuto incontrare prima di essere rapita - dice nel servizio la giornalista del Manifesto rapita in Iraq (proprio a Falluja) nel febbraio scorso, Giuliana Sgrena, a Rai News 24 - Avrei voluto raccontare tutto questo, ma i miei rapitori non me l'hanno permesso.

I gathered accounts of the use of phosphorus and napalm from a few Fallujah refugees whom I met before being kidnapped, says Manifesto reporter Giuliana Sgrena, who was kidnapped in Fallujah last February, in a recorded interview. I wanted to get the story out, but my kidnappers would not permit it.

Umm...remember this: Italian Journalist in Iraq is Nearly Killed by Friendly Fire and this: US troops fired on the car transporting Mr Calipari and newly-freed hostage Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist.

Yup. It looks like somebody somewhere didn't want news of the destruction caused by Willy Pete out into the universe. I've given you quite a good bit of hand-holding here, so, if you need me to string this together for you even more, then email laurellestlaurent@gmail.com.

Americans, please, stop falling for the rhetoric of your corrupt leaders. They do kill people for speaking the truth freely. They do knowingly kill civilians to make a quick buck off of oil. They do not love freedom and democracy. Stop equating yourselves with your leaders - criticize them, demand that they leave office. You pay the taxes that support this evil and corruption, which is something Henry David Thoreau would never do.

[9] I have never declined paying the highway tax, because I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject; and as for supporting schools, I am doing my part to educate my fellow-countrymen now. It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw and stand aloof from it effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with—the dollar is innocent—but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance. In fact, I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make what use and get what advantage of her I can, as is usual in such cases.

(Note: Thoreau refused to support with his taxes what he considered to be an illegal war against Mexico).

Witness the present Mexican war,(2) the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure (ref)