How could our government justify the use of chemical weapons (MK77) in fallujah?

Question

the US military has used White phosphorous and MK77 which is a new napalm formula, not only against enemy combatants and guerrillas, but again innocent civilians in its siege of Fallujah.
how come we did the very same thing that we were there to get rid of? i thought we were fighting saddam hussein because he was such an evil man who used chemical weapons on his own people??
the fallujah massacre has resulted in the death of 800 iraqi 90% of which were civilians including women and children.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8905191678365185391&q=fallujah+massacre
PS:This video contains images that depict the reality and horror of war.

It should only be viewed by a mature audience.

for your own information i dont give a rat's asss about who the friggin president is did i say bush???
it's still inhuman to use chemical weapons on civilians it's against all the laws of warfare.
you dont give a crap cause those people arent americans thats why you racist punks.
i look at'em as humans unlike you.
you watched this video and still has to come up with some BS excuse.
there's something wrong with you. you make me sick.

for your own information i dont give a rat's asss about who the friggin president is did i say bush???
it's still inhuman to use chemical weapons on civilians it's against all the laws of warfare.
you dont give a crap cause those people arent americans thats why you racist punk.
i look at'em as humans unlike you.
you watched this video and still had to come up with some BS excuse.
there's something wrong with you.
you sick bastard.

madisonsuicide well, may be if you do some research on how bad chemical weapons are you will know why it's worse than gettin shot.
yea they both kill but being shot is not like watching your skin melt.

Answer 1

well it sort of depends on which definition you use at the time as to weather something is considered a chemical weapon or not. i'm not trying to say we didn't use a chemical weapon, just that the definition often changes, coincidentally it usually matches if an ally is using it or an enemy.
personally if we are going to call one bad and another type of weapon good or ok, i would like to see some hard and fast and unchanging definitions as to what is exactly what.

i also don't tend to care too much what gets used, it does seem a bit odd to me that we say its ok to kill people one way, but not another, dead is dead and you can suffer just as bad dying from a bullet as you can from gas or atoms being smashed. i am concerned about who and what gets targeted though.

smart weapons also tend to bug me since yeah we might be able to hit a fly on someones nose, but the explosion part of it doesn't care how many houses it levels or who, civilian or military gets caught in it...its not like an explosion contains itself to just one house, especially when used in massive amounts. i think it was charles bukowski who said, "no one suffers like the poor." and in a time of war its very much, "no one suffers like the civilians."

added note: thanks for the link by the way, propaganda, partial truth, half the story or not, it is interesting and covers something that we know little about.

Answer 2

You think because people with an agenda make a video and put it on the internet it is true. Did your clip show the Amercans surrounding Fallujah for days and broadcasting on speakers, radio, an TV for all civilians and non-combatants to leave the city because of a pending assault? Nope didn't see that. And after peolple were allowed to leave, if the U.S. used napalm on the insurgents who remained and were firing on soldiers...GREAT, FRY 'EM!!! And phospherous smoke is used by almost every military in the world. It is mostly used to mark targets. And for the insurgent who was shot while laying on the ground, I've seen the events before that on the full version (not your edited propaganda version). They are illegal combatants who were in a firefight with U.S. soldiers. When they were overpowered and the Americans made it into the MOSQUE they were firing from, the few survivors posed as dead bodies with grenades and guns to take just a few more Americans with them. Tell the truth and God bless everyone of those boys there!!!

Answer 3

The answer was given by Bill Clinton who thought it a good idea to use a TANK against American citizens in Texas!! The Home of the man who replaced Clinton as my President and yours.Rules only matter to liberals when the president is a republican. Kosavo anyone?

Answer 4

thats not a chemical weapon, it an incendarcy grenade. All guns use chemical propellant, does that make them chemical weapons?

Answer 5

They don't really try to justify stuff much. And somehow people are okay with that.

Answer 6

Because we are no better than those we claim to be better than.