"Darfur, Americans? Take a look at what you've done in Falloojeh."

Iraqi blogger Riverbend has posted some real news about Falluja.

The situation in Falloojeh is worse than anyone can possibly describe. It has turned into one of those cities you see in your darkest nightmares- broken streets strewn with corpses, crumbling houses and fallen mosques... The worst part is that for the last couple of weeks we've been hearing about the use of chemical weapons inside Falloojeh by the Americans. Today we heard that the delegation from the Iraqi Ministry of Health isn't being allowed into the city, for some reason.

I don't know about the chemical weapons. It's not that I think the American military is above the use of chemical weapons, it's just that I keep wondering if they'd be crazy enough to do it. I keep having flashbacks of that video they showed on tv, the mosque and all the corpses. There was one brief video that showed the same mosque a day before, strewn with many of the same bodies- but some of them were alive. In that video, there's this old man leaning against the wall and there was blood running out of his eyes- almost like he was crying tears of blood. What 'conventional' weaponry makes the eyes bleed? They say that a morgue in Baghdad has received the corpses of citizens in Falloojeh who have died under seemingly mysterious conditions.

Riverbend's blog is the first place I've seen any talk about the US using chemical weapons in Iraq, and she stages this more as a question because she doesn't have any evidence to back up this claim. However, we could be using napalm in Iraq. Some may click that link and scream, "What? He linked to the Daily Mirror? And he trusts them?!" Yes, yes, I know, the Daily Mirror sucks, but I wouldn't link to them if more reliable sources hadn't confirmed that the US was using "napalm-like" weapons in Iraq as early as last year.

Napalm, by the way, is illegal to use in warfare.