One revelation in the Downing Street memos that has not made its way into the mainstream U.S. media is the confirmation that the U.S. had been using napalm against Iraqis.

Defense Minister, Adam Ingram, admitted that the US had misled the British high-command about the use of napalm, but he would not comment on the extent of the cover up. The use of firebombs puts the US in breach of the 1980 Convention on Certain Chemical Weapons (CCW) and is a violation the Geneva Protocol against the use of white phosphorous, “since its use causes indiscriminate and extreme injuries especially when deployed in an urban area.”

Stories about the use of napalm first began to surface after the siege of Falluja where reports of innocent civilians dying and “melted” corpses aroused suspicion that the U.S. was using its new generation of incendiary weapons, codenamed MK77.

At the time the administration vehemently denied the stories, even lying to its British allies. But now the leaked British documents confirm that use.

WMDs have finally been found in Iraq–and we are the ones using them.

One has to wonder when the U.S. media will decide that this story is newsworthy.