Willie Peter makes you a believer
We first touched upon White Phosphorus back in November 2005 when the Septics were doling out the good news to insurgents terrorists in Fulluja. Needless to say, at that time the MSM was getting a tad angsty about its use…
Of course, comments like this wont stop the finger pointing & salacious accusations from the al-Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation.
Now as then, WP is coming in for a slating but this time from The Times
Israel is believed to be using controversial white phosphorus shells to screen its assault on the heavily populated Gaza Strip yesterday. The weapon, used by British and US forces in Iraq, can cause horrific burns but is not illegal if used as a smokescreen.
For those of you that have never played with White Phosphorus or WP, it is known in the trade a Willie Peter & it is said of it that Willie Peter makes you a believer. Ironic eh? Aside from that, it is ideal for making the most excellent smoke screens & if a few terrorists get crispy crittered in the process, so much the better.
Has there been collateral damage? Yes of course there has & civilian casualties are always regreable however the residents of the Sunset Strip are all culpable by allowing Hamas terrorists to fire hundreds if not thousands of rockets into Israel. It’s a joint & several liabilty thing: Germans & the Japanese understand.
From the beginning of [2008] until June 19, Israel was struck by 2,660 projectiles fired from Gaza. From June 19, when the ceasefire went into effect, to Nov. 4, the total was 65. From Nov. 5 to Dec. 10, 237 mortar shells and rockets have been fired from Gaza at towns in Southern Israel
That chap who runs the UN, Willie Wonka or whatever the hell his name is, keeps banging on about proportionality but I have not yet seen a table that properly shows the mathematical relationship between a Hamas terrorist’s rocket fired indiscriminately at Israeli civilians & an Izzie 1,000 lb laser guided bomb aimed back at said terrorists. Maybe Mr Wonka should confine himself to sorting out UN’s unpaid parking tickets until such time as he can come up with such a relationship.
Comments
Hiding military facilities in schools, mosques and hospitals are also war crimes. However :(
Posted by: Yank in Germany | January 6, 2009 8:12 PM
WP is both warranted and necessary for Gaza.
Burn it out and push the rubble into a huge pile and burn it again, twice.
My daughter is IAF and a pilot. The US Air Force Academy refused her but the IAF recognized talent & ability.
Civilization is depending on the destruction of Islam in any form or shape.
Go Team! IAF IDF!
Posted by: Old Trooper | January 7, 2009 1:16 PM
Willie Peter - better than morris dancing.
Posted by: DirtCrashr | January 8, 2009 12:59 AM
Willie Wonka is using a red herring. The Geneva Convention concept of proportionality has NOTHING to do with the relative number of deaths, using the same amount and type of weapons, or matching ferocity.
Proportionality means that the collateral damage of an attack should not be disproportionate to the MILITARY OBJECTIVE which the belligerent power is trying to achieve. If your objective is to take out a headquarters, destroying the building they're in (and killing people around it) is not unlawful. Destroying the entire city with that objective would be. But if your objective is to destroy a military industrial complex, bombing an entire city is not disproportionate, e.g. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden.
Ignorance of the Law of War isn't as bad as deliberate misrepresentation of it.
Ban-Ki Moon is just an Asian Kofi Annan. The UN is disgraceful and purposeless.
Posted by: POWinCA | January 9, 2009 2:52 AM
The picture below, taken recently in Gaza, was posted today on a popular forward Dutch news blog. I thought I'd share it, for those that haven't already seen it ;-)
http://www.geenstijl.nl/archives/images/fosforgroot.jpg
You must admit; at least from a photographic perspective it's a beautifull shot.
Posted by: Brazilski | January 19, 2009 5:40 PM
But if your objective is to destroy a military industrial complex, bombing an entire city is not disproportionate, e.g. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden.
what was in dresden worth of bombing it??
nothing....
as nothing was worth of the effort of bombinh hiroshima and nagasaki.
study histiry before writing bullshits.....
Posted by: you idiot | May 24, 2009 11:06 PM
I can't let Mr idiot's (a well chosen handle)posting go by without commenting. Hiroshima was headquarters for the IJA's 2nd Army which commanded the defense of all southern Japan - to include the areas where the US intended to land in November, was home to Hiroshima Arsenal and a major shipyard (Mitsubishi) as well as numerous other facilities dveoted to the war effort (which describes just about everything in Dai Nippon in the summer of 1945).
"At the time of its bombing, Hiroshima was a city of considerable industrial and military significance. Even some military camps were located nearby, such as the headquarters of the Fifth Division and Field Marshal Shunroku Hata's 2nd General Army Headquarters, which commanded the defense of all of southern Japan. Hiroshima was a minor supply and logistics base for the Japanese military. The city was a communications center, a storage point, and an assembly area for troops."
I am sure a five minute search of the Net would produce similar results for the other cities in question.
"study histiry before writing bullshits..."
Yes, you really should. All this information has been publicly available for decades
Try this, probably the most dispassionate account of who did what to whoom and how many died in the last century
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/atrox.htm
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm
You should also learn English and how to spell if you wish to be taken seriously
Posted by: Beausaber | July 26, 2009 9:20 PM