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2008-04-27 Iraq

Iraqi lawmaker accuses U.S. forces of using prohibited weapons in Sadr City attacks

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-27 02:35|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

Posted by gorb 2008-04-27 02:59|| 2008-04-27 02:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Such measures if true should have been deployed not only in the initial invasion of 2003 but also during the Fallujah offensive! Whatever it takes to save one more American life is fine with me, But I'm the suggester of using the MOAB during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Neutron munitions in Fallujah. Don't preach the choir to me!!

Posted by smn 2008-04-27 06:16|| 2008-04-27 06:16|| Front Page Top

#3 fissile bombs hit a large number of targets and spread on the body,

Cluster bombs? Flechettes? Cluster flechettes?

Cluster fracks? Anybody got any ideas what he's thinking?

Posted by Bobby 2008-04-27 06:35|| 2008-04-27 06:35|| Front Page Top

#4 perhaps "Missile bombs" and he's a harelip?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-27 06:40|| 2008-04-27 06:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Fissile? I could only wish, but it would be urban development extreme.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2008-04-27 06:41|| 2008-04-27 06:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Woun't it be nice if this were true?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-04-27 07:15|| 2008-04-27 07:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Cluster bombs? Flechettes? Cluster flechettes?

Cluster fracks?

It's a clusterfuck, sir...

Posted by Sgt. Tom Highway 2008-04-27 08:45|| 2008-04-27 08:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Fissile bombs - those be the ones that make an Earth-shattering KABOOM?

Posted by SteveS 2008-04-27 08:46|| 2008-04-27 08:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Yassin, a member of the Iraqi parliament's Health & Environment Committee and a member of parliament from the Sadrist bloc, or Iraqis loyal to Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr.

You just can't make this crap up. To quote the sage philosopher Snoop Dog: "Fissel my nizzle, yo."

Posted by regular joe 2008-04-27 09:13|| 2008-04-27 09:13|| Front Page Top

#10

Posted by doc 2008-04-27 10:20|| 2008-04-27 10:20|| Front Page Top

#11 This reminds me of the italian leftist rag/ngo that claimed during the first fallujah fighting that the USA were using chemical weapons and mocro nukes, and also white phosphorous (this one was partly true, as it indeed was used for marking purpose IIRC), which "burned the bodies and left the clothing intact, a telling sign of white phosphorous (sic)". This was very silly, and was reported here, but it was too given air time by a french teevee guy, in his "against the Man" popular show. And later, this claim was taken as a fact by the various usual suspects, self-refential circle-j*rk at its best.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-04-27 11:17|| 2008-04-27 11:17|| Front Page Top

#12 And don't forget the various paleos claims of isreali uses of unconventional weapons (my favorite still being the "enriched uranium shells", depleted uranium was a little to miserly). SOP arab victimology.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-04-27 11:19|| 2008-04-27 11:19|| Front Page Top

#13 Call me when we use it on Iran.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-27 12:12|| 2008-04-27 12:12|| Front Page Top

#14 We don't need no stinking nukes in Sadr City - one decent ARCLIGHT strike would collapse every house there (not to mention about half the rest of Baghdad, which is why we don't do it). A half-dozen fuel-air mix (FAM) bombs would do equally as well, but the civilian death toll would be half the city (10% killed by the bomb, 40% killed by Sadr's bad boys shooting wildly in the air).

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-04-27 14:41|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-04-27 14:41|| Front Page Top

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