Falluja and phosphorus

Well this one is a little more sinister.
The US admitted that it used phosporus on the citizens of Falluja , and that it is a legal substance.
If my memory serves me right , white phosphorus and a sticking agent is known colloquially as Napalm ?
The UK said it's troops used phosphorus as a smoke screen [ it does burn cloudy], The US stated they used it on insurgents.
methinks the US gov't is being economical with the truth here.
I was seriously worried about the news blackout during the Falluja escapade - see earlier on in this blog [probably titled falluja] as it seemed obvious to me that it had to be a repressive campaign, but I didnt think they'd napalm the city ! [just shoot loads of innocents]
Is it any wonder there is unrest there and emnity towards the yanks ?
I just cannot believe this has happened. The way that politics seems to work in the US is that just before[ maybe a couple of months] there's little rumours that dont seem to go anywhere [the govt covering its tracks hurriedly?], then it comes out big time in the end- remember Al agraib [ok so I cant spell] jail - maybe the Dick Cheney farce was to try to squash interest in this atrocity ?

Dick Cheney and the yellow cake

I know this is a bit late in chatting about, but lost how to get back on here....
Anyway the story goes that Dick Cheney covered up the fact that Saddam hadn't tried to buy yellow cake from NIgeria and said he had.
He may have done that, but The US was in full cognicance of the facts as it was the UK that 'uncovered' the evidence and the CIA [or whoever] rubbished it and Blair had to back down. It was in the UK media big time when it happened, so I presume it was in the US papers also ?
This is IMO a purely dirty tricks jobbie