[JakeHarper]

The last one is from the first gulf war!

[Ron Burgundy]

These are disturbing.

[EMason88]

Originally Posted by osiris ↗

White Phosphorus catches fire, spreads on the skin and cannot be extinguished/washed off with water. This was during the attack on Al-Falluja.

I think the only thing to do with Phosphorus is to cut it out of let it burn out or burn through you

[wickedlara]

We must be a great nation to be able to dump this stuff on kids. Why doesn't the rest of the world love us?

[philovan]

Originally Posted by osiris ↗

Soldier testimonies good enough for you

Not only white phosphorus, but napalm, mustard gas, nerve gas, poisonous gases, it's like the geneva convention doesn't even fucking exist. Even the department of defense admitted it, so stfu and take your bullshit somewhere else.

Remember, all is fair in love and war.

[philovan]

Originally Posted by nobodysfool1967 ↗

So if someones covered with this stuff and they jump into a lake they'll continue to burn even under water?

They won't burn while under water, but how long can they stay under water? As soon as the chemical makes contact with air again it starts to burn again. No escape.

[Flapmon]

Would really like to see more photos of what this grenade does, that's fucken crazy.

[baldi]

Originally Posted by jdankens ↗

Agreed with the other posters, the story is bogus. White Phospherous has not been used against people in Iraq, it's considered WAY to inhumane to use against people. They can't even use anything larger than .223 . They're even not supposed to shoot anyone with 50cals, it's against the UN rules or whatever.

Just thought i would put this out there that it is not against any treaty or UN rule to use the .50. whole article about the myth here.
https://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/killing-myth

[wickedlara]

Originally Posted by philovan ↗

Remember, all is fair in love and war.

So there is no such thing as a war criminal?

[uloveme]

I'm proud to say that virtually all Phosphorus mined and used by the U.S. in WWII was mined near my home town in Dunnellon. It used to be the largest and only Phosphorus mines anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. Now its mined to the North of the old place, opened in the late 1800's I'll stop the history lesson there. But Patton always said he felt sorry only one time in his life, when he saw off a ship he was standing on at the time, a shell of WP (called Willy Pete) explode near a machine gun position manned by Vichy French, this was invading Africa btw... apparently the men started stumbling around burning to death

But hey at least they were French