White Phosphorus. Evil stuff. The smokey rain of this chemical will melt your skin to the bone. The pentagon has recently admitted that they used this illegal chemical weapon (banned by the Convention on Chemical Weapons back in '8o) in their attack on Fallujah in November 2004.
I think we can all still remember the lie(s) we were told as to why we were going into Iraq... chemical weapons were on the board (along with mushroom clouds and freedom for the Iraqi people). "Saddam used chemical weapons against his own people," we were told. I guess it's wrong for him to do it, but okay if we do. But, we're beyond irony here. This type of activity is par for the couse for this administration.
Estimates for the number of civilian casualities are somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,600, of course it's difficult to confirm this since the US military doesn't keep tabs on those sort of things (besides, that would mean differentiating between insurgents and civilians). We kicked Fallujah's ass and that's all that matters.