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Victor_c3

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4. Those are nasty weapons to use on human beings - especially a mostly civilian population center

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Tue Sep 20, 2022, 08:44 PM

Sep 2022

White phosphorus, something we used extensively in Fallujah in 2004, has had a serious long term impact on the people that continue to live in that city. The rate of birth defects and cancer were higher in Fallujah 10 years after Operation Phantom Fury than Nagasaki and Hiroshima after we dropped nuclear bombs.

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