Tulsa World (Oklahoma) December 07, 2004
Napalm doesn't help U.S.
President Bush has sanctioned the use of napalm, which is a deadly cocktail of jet fuel and polystyrene, banned by the United Nations in 1980. Napalm turns victims into human fireballs as the gel bonds flames to flesh.
People who survive these attacks suffer immeasurably. Eyewitnesses have reported seeing civilians, including babies and children, being hit by these.
The Pentagon has tried to avoid describing the gas bombs being used in Iraq as napalm, instead calling them "Mark 77 fire bombs." But John Pike, defense analyst with GlobalSecurity.org, a nonpartisan research group in Virginia said, "You can call it something other than napalm, but it's napalm."
It is ironic that a government concerned about gays getting married and fetuses being aborted, doesn't have a problem with fire bombing the innocent citizens of whom 50 percent are children in Iraq. One does not liberate people by dousing them with napalm, turning them into fireballs. Where is the so-called "moral high ground" that the United States claims to have?
Sherrill Durbin, Mounds
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