The Pentagon has admitted the use of white phosphorus as a weapon against
insurgents in Falluja. This adds more credibility to the documentary ran on
Italian television last week about the use of such weapons.

The use of white phosphorus is not necessarily a violation of any treaties,
however the legal wording and the use of it as a weapon could cause some
argument and possible changing of wording in future treaties. The biggest
problem is that white phosphorous has generally been used as illumination and
not as weapons. Well that is until we decided to use it.

The saddest part of this story resembles that of the victims our troops have
tortured. President Bush continually talked about freeing the people of Iraq
from a tyrant leader, however we now seem to have taken the place of Saddam.
Arguments were continuously made over Saddam’s use of chemical weapons and now
we are using chemical weapons. I guess next we need Bush standing in Baghdad
shooting a shot gun.

According to the
BBC, an Iraqi human rights team is now investigating the use of the
chemical. Of course we do not know what a negative ruling to the U.S. would
generate besides more unrest with our presence in the Middle East. This could
turn into a nasty battle over war crimes in the end. At the least, I would
expect the United Nations to launch an investigation into this also and possibly
take the matter to the security council.