U.S. Drops Napalm on Iraq
According to this article, the United States dropped napalm on Safwan Hill in Iraq. Conveniently, the US was not a signatory to the 1980 weapons convention which prohibits such actions. When Bush said he wanted to destroy weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, I’m not sure anyone realized he meant our weapons of mass destruction and that he meant he wanted to destroy them by using them. Live and learn. Thanks to Nathan Newman for the link.
Update 3/22: CNN has an article that confirms the use of napalm by the U.S. Read to the bottom to find these paragraphs:
There is a lookout there, a hill referred to as Safwan Hill, on the Iraqi side of the border. It was filled with Iraqi intelligence gathering. From that vantage point, they could look out over all of northern Kuwait.
It is now estimated the hill was hit so badly by missiles, artillery and by the Air Force, that they shaved a couple of feet off it. And anything that was up there that was left after all the explosions was then hit with napalm. And that pretty much put an end to any Iraqi operations up on that hill.
Update 3/23: The Pentagon now denies that the U.S. used napalm in Iraq on Safwan hill, although the Age reporter who filed the report got the information from two marines on the scene and confirmed it with the marines again on Friday. Somehow the Pentagon knows more about what the military is doing than the marines who are there. Doubtful.
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