If Syria was to only use white phosphorous against rebel targets would the USA

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

be quiet/tolerant of that or would they call the use of WP as chemical weapons use?

[KurtNYC]

1. This isn't really about chemical weapons. That is just an excuse.

We used shitloads of depleted uranium in Iraq and there is no way we would tolerate that from Assad.

[VanillaRhapsody]

2. Oh here we go....

I knew it wouldn't take long...

The U.S. also gave Small Pox blankets to Native Americans....shall we mention that too? "What if Assad used small pox blankets against his people next time"? Oh wait...small pox would be a biological weapon...does that still count?

[polly7]

3. Duh.

The people that authorized use of WP and DU are still alive, walking around free. If their crimes aren't worth justice, how is anyone in the world supposed to believe this has one single thing to do with using weapons of any kind?

[Recursion]

6. Are incindiery rounds and armor piercing rounds illegal now?

I missed that convention.

[polly7]

10. I never said they were 'illegal'

Though they should be!

I'm talking about being immoral, evil, horrific, disgusting, and an atrocity. As well as cluster bombs, landmines and all the other evil shit that some refuse to stop using along with most of the world.

It's the HYPOCRISY. And it's transparent as hell that chemical weapons are being used as this excuse for this war on Syria.

[Recursion]

11. DU is less toxic than the molybdenum it replaced

I absolutely refuse to say that making an armor-piercing round less toxic is a bad thing.

WP is horrible, but gives the effect of napalm in a more concentrated area, which makes it at least more accurate.

[polly7]

12. Tell it to the people of Fallujah. nt.

[Recursion]

14. Exactly: *many* more would have died if we still used molybdenum and napalm

You make my point.

[polly7]

16. Yuck. You make me sick. nt.

[Recursion]

20. For wanting fewer civilian deaths?

if you say so.

[cali]

4. do you deny that the U.S. has been responsible for atrocities

in the recent past, including torture, launching a war under false pretenses, using depleted uranium and white phosphorus?

[VanillaRhapsody]

8. No I don't...do you suggest that most other countries have no atrocities at all in their pasts?

[polly7]

15. Which other countries are threatening a sovereign nation with war? nt.

[cali]

18. Of course not. I do suggest that the U.S. has more than most

over the past few decades.

[quinnox]

7. well, one big difference is the small pox blankets thing was hundreds of years ago, while the

USA using depleted uranium and white phosphorus on civilians happened within 10 years ago.

[VanillaRhapsody]

9. Yeah under a different President and administration

10 yrs is a decade....

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

13. And the present administration decided to look forward instead of back...

at the burnt corpses and results of depleted uranium on a population.

[daa]

21. So depleted uranium by us and white phosphorous by Israel is ok with you?

[Recursion]

5. Since WP isn't and has never been a chemical weapon

Words actually have meanings, and substances actually have properties, you know? WP sets things on fire.

You can set people on fire, but you can't poison them.

[Iggo]

19. And we can kill 'em, but we can't eat 'em.

That would be wrong.

[msongs]

17. Syria could just use drones, the approved and preferred USA method. nt