a rose by any other name...

Italian TV is reporting that the US used white phosphorus against civilians in the battle of Falluja last year. The US agrees it was used, but only to illuminate. The Italians have pictures of people mutilated (and dead -- pretty nasty too, I've seen them...you can google them if you want to) by chemical burns similar to those that result from contact with white phosphorus. It doesn't look good.

And the U.S.'s response of "white phosphorus isn't a chemical weapon" is nothing but name games. The shit performs a chemical reaction that melts skin...call it what you want, but I think it's just as bad as anything we were accusing Saddam of having.