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White Phosphorus Munitions
Legality
The assumption that white phosphorus is considered a chemical weapon, and thus constitutes a violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, is claimed to be false. Professor Michael A. Newton testified at the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict: "the law is clear that there are some authorized, perfectly valid uses of white phosphorus munitions". Newton mentions legitimate marking of targets and illumination and shielding of movements as common uses. In urban areas, white phosphorus can prevent incendiary leveling of an area by masking movements in order to avoid snipers or explosive devices. However, a legal weapon can be used in an unlawful way. An intentional attack on a playground would be different from an attack on other areas, and thus is ruled by different sets of international law. Protocol I demands proportionality and 'feasible measures' in order to minimize or eliminate damage to civilian lives or property, stating "[white phosphorus] is not strictly prohibited, but it has to be done carefully, and tightly controlled and on the basis of a very detailed targeting analysis".
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originally posted by: Ohanka
Cool, some terrorists got roasted
originally posted by: Ohanka
a reply to: mikegrouchy
Act three? What do you think that will involve?
originally posted by: mikegrouchy
History will look back at us.
It won't see all the posturing and
political games,
It won't see the media spin machine
and the day We The People started to resist it
It won't see that the public,
for the first moment in decades,
was feeling that they were getting
some control of their own country back.
No.
History will only see one thing.
That we dropped the ball,
when it came to an escalation of chemical warfare.
If we fail to act,
History will judge us
as failures as well.
Me must not just act,
we must demand action.
Don't let this be the Governments' idea,
don't let this be the Media's idea.
Make history see that at this moment
we shed our media controlled psy-op conditioning
and at that exact moment
we made the right decision
for the future of all human kind.
Why we SHOULD [color=gold] demand military action on Syria
/thank you for reading
Mike