posted by Redleg:
By the way so I guess your in the crowd that would accuse me of being a war criminal for firing M825 smoke on the battlefield to screen manuever, for firing M110 WP at a ammo dump, and M110 WP several times to mark enemy positions for aircraft.

I would not call you an war criminal for that in a million years.But you have to accept that shelling a city with phosphorus grenades,when you know that there are mostly civilians and insurgents there using them as human shields is just wrong.Like the artillery officer sayed there is no use of shelling a city with smoke munitions if you are doing clean and sweep operation.the use of phosphorus was to drive people out of the buildings and then to kill them with HE grenades.The tactic shows clearly that the commanding officer wasnt concerned a bit about the civilians in Fallujah.