"Chemical weapon" in general is a weirdly broad category that includes potent neurotoxins, common industrial gases that burn or blister your skin, and universally used irritants like pepper spray. White phosphorous fits right in to this family of deplorables.
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"An 8-year-old Afghan girl, Razia, was injured when a WP shell ripped through her home in 2009. When she reached the operating room, white powder covered her skin, the oxygen mask on her face started to melt, and flames appeared when doctors attempted to scrape away dead tissue."
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That's from a Human Rights Watch report on this lovely substance, which you and I just paid for on tax day. https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/06/08/white-phosphorous-new-napalm …
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I understand your point, but if you look at what already falls under the CW rubric, it's not a very coherent category. And the military doesn't like to talk about the poisoning effects it has on civilian populations after the fires go out.
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The distinction is still pretty stupid; it's not like high explosives lack chemicals, or are particularly humane in how they tear human beings to pieces.
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I agree with you on this, too. You're just as dead from a cluster bomb as from sarin.
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