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Thread #137528   Message #3165391
Posted By: Teribus
05-Jun-11 - 05:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: obit: Osama Bin Laden ???
Subject: RE: BS: obit: Osama Bin Laden ???
1: "the effects of white phosphorus on human beings is indesputable and as far as I'm concerned, govenments who use it on civilians are deserving of the description "terrorist", and those who support them "terrorist sympathysers"."

So far you have provided us with actual evidence that White Phosphorus was used on civilians, as previously stated the troops in question were under attack and targets were being marked in efforts to repel an insurgent attack on the village. If they were marking the area in this way it would be in order to bring in an air strike.

2: "You seem to have gone silent on naplam and Agent Orange?"

Not in the slightest, nothing more to be said about either, you claimed them to be "Chemical Weapons" which they most certainly are not. They are, "napalm" = fuel with a gelling agent and a means of detonation an incendiary in other words, "Agent orange" = defoliant, weed killer. That their effects on both people and vegitation is undoubtedly horrible, neither were as you described them, i.e. "Chemical Weapons" FACT - live with it. Both at their time of use were perfectly legal "weapons". Pssst there are no "nice" ways of dying in any war or civil conflict.

Osama bin Laden the spiritual leader of Al-Qaeda?? Where did you pluck that "myth" from?? The man himself never purported to be any such thing, and guess what, I'll believe his take on his role and position long before I would accept your ramblings on anything.