US defends use of napalm-like firebombs

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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/08/1060145835413.html

US forces used napalm-like MK-77 firebombs against Iraqi forces in their drive toward Baghdad last spring, a Pentagon official confirmed today, defending their use as legal and necessary.

US Marine Corps jets dropped the firebombs at least once in March to take out Iraqi positions at the town of Safwan just across the Kuwait border from the US-led invasion force, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"It is like this: you've got (an) enemy that's hard to get at. And it will save your own lives to use it, and there is no international contraventions against it," the official said.

"I don't know that there is any humane way to kill your enemy." snip

"We napalmed both those (bridge) approaches," Colonel Randolph Alles, the commander of Marine Air Group 11, was quoted as telling the newspaper.

"Unfortunately, there were people there because you could see them in the (cockpit) video.



Oh, by the way sorry for the napalm. We were scared you had WMDs. Our crackhead in chief and his minions just made a little mistake.

[htuttle]

1. Liars! You don't use incendiary bombs to take out a bridge!

You use firebombs when you want to take out the people ON the bridge.

[NNN0LHI]

3. Didn't use high explosives because we wanted to use them bridges I think?

Thats my take.

I wonder how many people these pilots incinerated for Bush's mistake?

Don

[malaise]

2. Humane people don't kill

except those who pray before they go in to battle and cite the Ten Commandments. Stop this fugging planet let me get off - EfuggingNOUGH!!

[arcane1]

4. another version of this story:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20030805-9999_1n5bomb.html

[Rex]

5. Firebombs are anti-personal weapons, not meant to be used on

large structures (unless it is a forest or mostly made out of wood). I've gotten used to the Pentagon lying about everything they do. Fucking assholes.

[uppityperson]

6. k&r for napalm admissions