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November 22, 2005
The skinny on willy. . .
No, I'm not talking about Bill Clinton or any of his anatomy, as a friend suggested while looking over my shoulder at the title of this post!
What I AM talking about is White Phosphorus, WP or Willy-Pete. There's been significant chatter from the ignorant left wing of the world's press trying to reclassify WP as a "chemical weapon". While it's true that WP is a "chemical", it's not a "chemical weapon" because of what it does and how it's used. WP is an incendiary and illumination munition, you either fire it up in the air where the charge explodes, igniting the WP and it burns with a bright white light as it descends (usually assisted by a little parachute) providing illumination, or you use it in something like a hand grenade that will explode, ignite and burn anything around it. In their zeal to cast America and her allies as the bad guys, the left wing of the press (yes, there is a right wing to the press as well, it's just smaller) wants to redefine WP even though many treaties on the governance of warfare have already decided the issue.
I could go on, but Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom has MUCH MUCH MORE, so I'll stop and let you go read over there. He also manages to get a few good slams on the Sic-Kos, so I gotta link to that, ya know.
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at November 22, 2005 9:33 AM
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