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2005-11-18 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Contrast and compare WP as used in Fallujah to a generic chemical weapon.

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Posted by Thavitle Angoting5805 2005-11-18 18:51|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I meant: WP is used for obscuration, marking targets, and burning things. Sorry, I get really pissed about what the lone ranger said.

Posted by Ray Robison 2005-11-18 19:26|| 2005-11-18 19:26|| Front Page Top

#2 A lot of people are claiming that WP is a chemical and a weapon therefore it is a chemical weapon

And chemical weapons are WMDs. Saddam's army like all the armies of significant size had WP artillery. Therefore Saddam had WMDs. So watch the moonbats try to rationalize how WP is chemical but Bush Lied[tm] about Iraqi WMDs. Watch true BDS in action as two fundamentally contradictory positions are held at the same time. Heh.

Posted by Flinert Chutch5977 2005-11-18 19:55|| 2005-11-18 19:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, Flin... but wait a minute...

If WP is a WMD, and Saddan had WP, the...

But, he didn't have any ...

But WP is ...

[head explodes]

Posted by Bobby 2005-11-18 21:26|| 2005-11-18 21:26|| Front Page Top

#4 I personally entered a destroyed ordnance room at a former Republican Guard barracks, now within the confines of a part of Camp Slayer, in Baghdad in 2003. American troops had previously spray painted outside the smashed-in door " WP ". Indeed, when entering the blackened and terribly smelly room, a buddy and I could just barely make out the jumbled charred mess within the room. How the room structure managed to survive the conflagaration that had taken place is beyond me. All sorts of expended ordanace littered the floor and spilled out of charcoled crates, hand tossable grenade canisters on charred shelving appeared ready for the taking but were somehow untoppled and yet visibly expended of their unknown contents. My buddy who had great knowledge of munitions agreed with the " WP " sprayed marking that indeed there had been WP in the room and he was familiar with the smell. I couldn't vouch for the smell, but I could vouch for the damage from earlier sights of " WP " damage at other sites. It seems that WP is indeed quite wide-spread and truely it would be a horrific way to get hurt or killed. But then so are a million other ways of dying. Why are they focusing so tightly on WP anyways?

Posted by Fun Dung Poo 2005-11-18 22:30|| 2005-11-18 22:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Nuthin' new about the WP controversy - the Commies whined far and wide about America using WP in combat but had no probs themselves using it profusely in Korea, Vietnam, local Revolutionary movements, and Afghanistan during the Cold War. Its about their soldiers winning and American boys losing AND dying - every advantage they can get.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-11-18 23:27|| 2005-11-18 23:27|| Front Page Top

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