More on the road to hell...

Like unnecessary deaths:

It would be a familiar scene in Iraq's next few years: Crowds gather, insurgents mingle with civilians. Troops open fire, and innocents die.

All the while, according to internal military correspondence obtained by The Associated Press, U.S. commanders were telling Washington that many civilian casualties could be avoided by using a new non-lethal weapon developed over the past decade.

Military leaders repeatedly and urgently requested - and were denied - the device, which uses energy beams instead of bullets and lets soldiers break up unruly crowds without firing a shot.

It's a ray gun that neither kills nor maims, but the Pentagon has refused to deploy it out of concern that the weapon itself might be seen as a torture device.

There you have it, moonbats. Caterwalling about Abu Ghraib, flushed Korans at Gitmo; screaming "TORTURE!" and crying wolf where there was no wolf.

Perched on a Humvee or a flatbed truck, the Active Denial System gives people hit by the invisible beam the sense that their skin is on fire. They move out of the way quickly and without injury.

On April 30, 2003, two days after the first Fallujah incident, Gene McCall, then the top scientist at Air Force Space Command in Colorado, typed out a two-sentence e-mail to Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"I am convinced that the tragedy at Fallujah would not have occurred if an Active Denial System had been there," McCall told Myers, according to the e-mail obtained by AP. The system should become "an immediate priority," McCall said.

But again, I reiterate:

but the Pentagon has refused to deploy it out of concern that the weapon itself might be seen as a torture device.

Yep--all that caterwalling in your efforts to undermine our war effort sure as hell paid off, hasn't it?

More blood on liberals' hands. What else is new?

And the hell of it is, if the military did use that non-lethal, non-maiming weapon, BDS-infested moonbats would sure as hell have labeled it as torture.

Are you having fun paving that road to hell, moonbats?