Use of Chemical Weapons in Fallujah

The legacy of Fallujah

The western rhetoric of apathy must not blind us to our obligation to challenge atrocities

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Jonathan Holmes
Wednesday April 4, 2007
The Guardian

In the face of repeated independent verification, US forces have now acknowledged the use of chemical weapons, and yet there remains no sustained international outcry and no official response (let alone condemnation) from any government or the United Nations. The US has overthrown a regime while supposedly searching for phantom weapons of mass destruction, only to use such weapons on the newly “liberated” civilian population. The cold hypocrisy of such actions is outweighed only by its extravagant viciousness.

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