White Phosphorous story in the US media

Only about a year late, but we're finally starting to hear about this. I'm not going to link to them, but there are pictures online that show the aftermath of Napalm and WP bombing that are absolutely stomach-turning.

It's bad enough that US companies like Halliburton are ripping off the Iraqis so badly that international commissions are asking us to pay them back. (Notably, they're not asking HALLIBURTON to pay Iraq back, but the US government. I love how corporations that have no fealty to their host countries in terms of jobs or taxes come running back to them if they get in a jam.) It's bad enough that we knew that one of the main sources for prewar intelligence was boldfaced lying as early as February 2002, a year before Colin Powell made his presentation to the UN using some of the same information from that specious intelligence. It's bad enough that we're letting the Iraqi Rasputin, Ahmad Chalabi, back into this country to meet with high-level officials as he attempts to get the prime ministerial position he fully expected when he hyped up WMD claims to US officials in the run-up to war.

It's bad enough all of this stuff is coming out. It paints a picture of America as deliberately mendacious before the war, opportunistically venal during and after it, and unconcerned with the fate of the Iraqi people throughout. Now, add on top of all that the fact that we were using chemical weapons in the country? They need to take more than ethics classes in the White House these days. They need soul-cleansing courses.