To echo free agents very well put point, a recent video released by the Iraqi are force clearly show IS fighter manoeuvring through the streets with women and children in tow as shields. That place has gone to hell in a hand basket and will continue to deteriorate further. Dying through conventional munitions is bad enough, but chemical weapons, those poor people. 🙁
its plausible to say that while a chemical strike may hit its intended target the spread of the chemical is designed to cause more damage/death/suffering to a wider area...but this is no better than missile strikes that miss their intended targets and instead hit homes/heavily populated residential areas, schools and hospitals...of which there have been many instances of in recent years
This is bollocks, at least one system makes an attempt to discern between targets.
As I said earlier, Iraq didn't look like Grozny during the American occupation. Baghdad, never once, looked this bad - Grozny looked like every other example of apocalyptic levels of destruction the Russians get involved with - Stalingrad, Aleppo etc.
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There was a reason for that, the Americans didn't need to use katyusha barrages, barrel bombs and chemical weapons to dislodge entrenched targets. There's been a move to even smaller munitions since as well, eg Brimstone.
the Israeli's have used white phosphorus shells on the Palestinians, Saddam used chemical weapons on the Kurds, the Americans have i'm pretty sure used depleted uranium...and lets not forget their use of napalm (while it may not be a chemical weapon the visual impact is similar to all other chemical warfare attacks) in Vietnam
The yanks did use a proper chemical weapon in Vietnam, Agent Orange - a herbicide which due to improper manufacturing (I think) - caused huge amounts of birth defects. I'm surprised you didn't use that as an example instead of Napalm - anyway, have you seen the Americans using napalm recently?
DU seems to have had a lot more research done into it's long term health effects - since I last read up on it in 2008. Perhaps a munition to be banned for all occasions but Russian tanks charging into Europe? Another thing with DU, is that it's an easy target to blame - I remember getting in contact with a researcher from Liverpool back in 08 who had a professional interest in the topic. Iraq, especially Southern Iraq around Basrah, has been contaminated with so much shit it makes China look positively clean. Leaking ship wrecks, industrial chemicals, old fertilisers, mustard gas, dioxins....
And just who started all this? That's right, Blair and his Christian mate Bush.
Really feel the need to correct this as well, 100,000 dead kurds before the Gulf war, 100,000 dead during the 1991 uprisings, likely a million dead during the Iran-Iraq war, the latter wasn't far off racking up as many casualties as the Vietnam war.
Yeah, Bush and Blair made thing so much worse...it was a bastion of civility before.
Although if you go further back, the British empire - somewhere and at some point in time, can probably be blamed.
kinda wish i didn't give the war fantasist a platform! 😆