TelePolis cites the Pentagon:
The United States categorically denies the use of chemical weapons at anytime in Iraq, which includes the ongoing Fallujah operation. Furthermore, the United States does not under any circumstance support or condone the development, production, acquisition, transfer or use of chemical weapons by any country. All chemical weapons currently possessed by the United States have been declared to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and are being destroyed in the United States in accordance with our obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention.: Statement des Pentagon vom 12. 11.2004 ¹
The issue at stake is whether the USA is using incendiary weapons like the gruesome Napalm bombs we know so well from the final scenes of *Apocalypse Now* (IMDB:0078788). Napalm is a mix of ingredients including gasoline and burns slowly but hot. “It’s no great way to die,” as one source puts it. The statement above is part of the US’ attempt to deny the use of Napalm.
Of course they destroyed all their Napalm. But they invented MK77 which is basically the same thing but uses kerosine instead of gasoline. Different name, same thing, I say.
Telepolis says that the USA is not party to the *Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons (Protocol III). Geneva, 10 October 1980* ²
Well, I guess that explains it all. They tried to lie their way arround the issue, first claiming they did not use Napalm (using an improved chemical weapon of mass destruction instead), and then claiming to fulfill their obligations when they haven’t even joined the relevant protocol.
The only problem it seems, was that they once again lied to their British allies. But I guess that won’t change anything with the British firmly entrenched between the right and the far right...
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