BB, you already know that virtually nobody on this forum has anything against the USA. It has been repeated often enough for the meanest intellect to cotton on to the fact that it is the collection of liars, crooks, and hypocrites who are currently running the place that most of us object to.

Using WP to make smoke IS evil when that smoke is generated by burning Iraqis.

Also white phosphorus does fit the strict definition of a chemical weapon, in that it is the chemical reaction of the substance with air, and with the moisture of a human body that causes it to burn without an external means of ignition, and it cannot be extinguished by immersion in water. I believe the standard treatment, where available is to illuminate the body, while immersed, with UV light which causes the chemical to fluoresce, then physically remove each piece. A long and painful process.

However, WP could not logically be called a WMD, as one WP shell is unlikely to kill as many as one HE round.

Don T.