I reckon that naked little girl running down that road in Viet Nam would agree with Rhrosty's comment that Napalm is a particularly effective accelerant. Little doubt that she was accelerating.

Stezza. I know Ray McGovern's voice very well. He is not lying. Karen Hudes was a senior lawyer and whistle blower for the World Bank agrees.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owanSt6XnmM

David Smith hates the USA for some unknown reason, and he is prepared to write an article which is full of gross exaggeration to "prove" that the USA is as bad as Nazi Germany. He dishonestly equates white phosphorous and depleted uranium weapons with mustard gas and Sarin nerve gas on the totally spurious grounds that these are all "chemicals." By that standard, every army on planet Earth is guilty of using "chemical weapons" because even gunpowder is a "chemical."

If David Smith hates the USA so much and he wants us to agree with him, the onus is upon him to put forth a reasoned argument as to why we should agree with him. Writing an article which any teenager can see is a gross misrepresentation of the facts only convinces his opponents that he and his US hating friends will stoop to any subterfuge or misrepresentation to convince the naive and immature of his perverted worldview.

Memo to David. If you want educated and intelligent people to take you seriously then knock off the creative thinking which is needed to claim that black is somehow white. Nobody but Geoff or Perth, Arjay and Davod G are dumb enough to think that President Barrack Obama is the devil incarnate, who after getting into power on the peace vote now wants to conquer the world.

Such a worldview is childish. Your logic reminds me of a resident who lives in a crime prone neighbourhood who never ceases to blame the police for the situation that they find themselves in. The Shiites and Alawites are at war with the Sunnis in Syria, but all you want to do is criticise the Americans who are not even involved in that conflict. You can't even wait until the USA is involved before you start thinking up sinister reasons for any US intervention. Won't you be disapointed if the yanks do not get involved and both sides start using poison gas on each others civilians? Then you can get creative thinking up stupid reasons why the yanks were evil for not getting involved.