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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 11:41 PM
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bombs and lies


Here is some stuff about napalm and daisy cutters that I got googling around..Bush is a liar liar .. well,you know the rest..


Napalm - News Releases
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1998 - -The Battelle Memorial Institute and the US Navy achieved
... There is a total of 3.1 million gallons of napalm stored at Fallbrook ...
https://portal.navfac.navy.mil/portal/ page?_pageid=181,3452803&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL - 25k - Cached


And this is where it all went to...when they "disposed " of it.


During the war, Pentagon spokesmen disputed reports that napalm was being used, saying the Pentagon's stockpile had been destroyed two years ago.http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20030805-9999_1n5bomb.html

Daisy Cutters signal switch to crude tactics
Evening Standard (London), April, 2003 by HUGH DOUGHERTY

While other allied bombs are dropped from strike aircraft or American bombers, Daisy Cutters are the size of a small family car - so large that they have to be dropped from the back of a specially adapted Hercules transport plane.

They contain 15,000lb of fuel-air explosives, a variation on the deadly napalm which the US deployed with huge destructive effect - and to massive public outrage - in Vietnam.
The plane carrying the device has to fly above 6,000 feet to escape being destroyed by the blast.

The bomb works by detonating only three feet above the ground, spraying tiny droplets of fuel-based explosive into the air where they create a massive "air burst", a huge explosion, marked by a mushroom cloud visible for miles around.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_200 ...

Why Napalm....???


From an article by Scott Shuger in Slate, who favors the use of napalm flamethrowers in Afghanistan:

"Although in Vietnam napalm was used irresponsibly on civilians, it is not inherently dangerous to them." Shuger adds, "Flamethrowers might even save some terrorists' lives because they would rather give up than be burned alive."

An Interveiw...
Q: For instance, in Afghanistan, when the so-called Daisy Cutter bomb was dropped, it was acknowledged here that -- it was also dropped for psychological reasons, not just to kill as many al Qaeda and Taliban, but also to send a psychological message. Is there a psychological component to this massive new bomb?
http://www.pentagon.mil/transcripts/2003/t03112003_t0311sd.html


Daisy cutters or Napalm..Hmmm both bombs are used for the same "psychological" effect on the victims.Both bombs explode in the same "incendiary"way... I think these weapons do the kind of psychological effect on a population being bullied by people dropping bombs like these which could be construed as terror perhaps?coincidence? NOT.? And here we had tons of napalm that had to be used up or"destroyed"..I guess we know where they destroyed it now..The fucking pentagon is a den of sociopaths NOT to be trusted~ever~.

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