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Thread #129840   Message #2949571
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
22-Jul-10 - 04:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: New Israeli atrocity: attack on Gaza aid
Subject: RE: BS: New Israeli atrocity: attack on Gaza aid
Don,
"JIM should be ashamed for opposing your specious rubbish?"

No Don, I do not expect to be agreed with.
He should be ashamed of claiming to have found an original piece by me on the net, and maintaining the lie.
Do you find that acceptable behaviour Don?

All armed forces use WP smoke. I have seen it often enough and have fired it from the 81mm mortar.
You will see that I have not supported its use in Gaza.
I said it was wrong and deplorable. It could also be illegal.
I only disagreed with Jim when he said it was a chemical weapon, which is wrong, and an act of genocide, which is simply ludicrous.

WP should not be used against civillians, but a battle was being fought. The smoke was to conceal IDF troop movements to reduce their casualties.
Only people out in the open during this battle were in any danger. from it.