New & Improved

www.paulnwhelan.com/ historypageone.html

Because the US used an upgraded form of napalm on certain Iraqi positions, some of these deaths and injuries would have been particularly agonizing. Napalm, widely used by American forces in Vietnam, is a mixture of jet fuel and a polystyrene-like gel that sticks to the skin as it burns. Initially the Pentagon denied that it used napalm, but later acknowledged that the upgraded form of the weapon it was using was "remarkable similar."

Colonel James Alles, commander of Marine Air Corp 11, said of one attack: "We napalmed both those [bridge] approaches." "Unfortunately, there were people there...you could see them in the [cockpit] video. They were Iraqi soldiers. It's no great way to die."

Peter Singer, The President of Good & Evil:The Ethics of George W. Bush