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Originally Posted by Elphaba
Moose, as to your first question you will find the answer in the links provided. The Pentagon as admitted to using "napalm-like" weapons. Your other questions are likely to be answered in the links as well, if you should choose to read them.
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From the following link:
http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archiv..._Fallujah.html
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Although all napalm in the U.S. arsenal had been destroyed by 2001, Mark-77 firebombs, which have a similar effect to napalm, were used against enemy positions in 2003.
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No Mark-77 firebombs have been used in operations in Fallujah.
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"similar effect to napalm" does not mean "napalm-like". A bullet can kill you. So can a stampeding herd of cattle. Does that make a stampeding herd of cattle "bullet-like"? They both have the same result of making somebody dead, right?
Is a FAE bomb "napalm-like"? They both use combustibles, right?
Let's use another example. You're familiar with the old Corvair of Ralph Nader fame, right? The Prius, the new hybrid gas-electric car manufactured by Honda, IIRC, could be considered honestly to be an "advanced version" of the Corvair, since it's several generations of automotive technology later, yes? Manufacturing the Corvair to it's original safety standards now would be quite illegal. Making the Prius is not illegal at all.
What's the point of all this verbiage? When necassary, words can be quite deceiving, and must be parsed very, very carefully.