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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE] On 10 November last year, the Islam Online website wrote: "US troops are reportedly using chemical weapons and poisonous gas in its large-scale offensive on the Iraqi resistance bastion of Fallujah, a grim reminder of Saddam Hussein's alleged gassing of the Kurds in 1988."[/QUOTE]Er...excuse me, but I'd need to see a more established source than "the Islam Online website ". For obvious reasons. Red Cross? Amnstey International? Doctors Without Borders? They're all in Iraq trying to monitor casualties (in part to insure the insurgents have not aquired and are not using chemical weapons), so I'd be very suprsed if White Phosphorus (which requires serious cleanup and leaves evidence in buildings, bodies and soil) was being used by US forces. If it [i]was[/i] used though, a lot of people need to go to jail forever- it's a truly horrible weapon. Want to see more prisoner abuse? Just wait. The US Army announced this week that it will [URL=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-arecruit08nov08,0,4115355.story]lower [/URL] it's recruiting standards to make more of it's recruitment goals. An additional 2% of applicants that scored in the lowest quarter in aptitude/acceptability tests will be admitted. [QUOTE][b]We have clear experience from the 1970s with recruiting a sizable number of people from the lowest mental categories," said White. After the Vietnam War ended, the Army accepted a higher proportion of low-scoring recruits, which led to training and discipline problems. -Former Army Secretary Thomas White[/b][/QUOTE]Gee, recruiting morons and the dregs of society, giving them firearms an enemy to hate and carte blanch to get information will lead to problems? Naaaa. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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