In his most recent column George Monbiot investigates the use of chemical weapons in the U.S. assault on Falluja last year. He asserts that “Behind the phosphorus clouds are war crimes within war crimes” and “We now know the US also used thermobaric weapons in its assault on Falluja, where up to 50,000 civilians remained.” He concludes by asking the rhetorical question, “[I]s there any crime the coalition forces have not committed in Iraq?”