High-profile air strikes 'killed only civilians'

[RBHam]

Shock and awe? Or is it, "Aw, shucks. Missed again. Oh well, collateral damage and all that, I'll still sleep well. It's not like I had to see it."

Dan Glaister
Monday June 14, 2004
The Guardian

The American military launched some 50 air strikes designed to kill specific targets during the Iraq war, it emerged yesterday, but none of them found its mark.
Instead the air strikes had a high civilian toll, according to military officials serving at the time.

Until now only a few of the air strikes, such as the use of four 2,000lb "bunker-buster" bombs in an attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at a farm in Masur on March 19, had been made public.

That air strike, which caused the starting date of the war to be brought forward, has been the subject of speculation, with analysts doubting the reliability of the intelligence used and questioning whether Saddam was at the compound.

According to the New York Times, a report prepared in December by the pressure group Human Rights Watch, said the decision to go for high-profile strikes against individual Iraqi leaders had "resulted in dozens of civilian casualties that the US could have prevented if it had taken additional precautions".

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1238022,00.html

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[Eric J in MN]

1. We should give the military useable nuclear weapons to

We should give the military useable nuclear weapons to add to the arsenal which already kills so many innocent people.

Support Bush's mini-nuke policy (sarcasm).

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. How to win wars and make friends.

NOT! :grr: