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Originally posted by HarmlessRabbit
Exactly, and you are saying I hate my country using exactly the same sort of extrapolation. I'm calling you on it. You're spinning.
Well you should correct the USA military. The MK77-4, which the armed forces commonly referred to as napalm, was actually, as you said, a mix of petroleum, benzene, and polystyrene. Napalm is "technically" a mix of <b>na</b>phthene and <b>palm</b>itate with gasoline. With the MK77-5 the USA changed the formula slightly and denied that the product was napalm, even through the MK77-4, by your definition, wasn't napalm in the first place.
So, I guess it would be ok for the USA to start using mustard gas again as long as we started calling it Freedom Gas.
Being "technically" correct isn't good enough when people are being roasted alive. The military knew damn well they were using napalm against the Iraqis, but issued a denial to cover up. Clinton was "technically correct" when he said "I did not have sex with that woman." I wonder if you were defending him a few years ago?
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I'm not spinning at all. You continue to lay out the evidence yourself, I need not elaborate.
As for the napalm. They changed it, they renamed it, they were asked if they used napalm, they answered truthfully. I'm glad you understand they were not lying.
I'm also glad our military knows what they're doing, napalm is a good thing.