Som Jymdis ville.
Följande citat förklarar att bombkriget i Irak och Kuwait inte var ett krig med guidade "smart-bombs" utan merparten som användes var vanliga bomber som fälls 40-60 stycken på en gång från armador av B-52'r för att lägga ut så kallade bombmattor:
2,095 HARM missiles
217 Walleye missiles
5,276 guided anti-tank missiles
44,922 cluster bombs and rockets
136,755 conventional bombs
4,077 guided bombs[1]
The conventional unguided bomb (so-called "dumb bomb") was the most commonly used weapon in the massacre. These come in four types: the Mk 82 (500 lbs), Mk 83 (1,000 lbs), Mk 84 (2,000 lbs), and the M117 (750 lbs). In all some 150,000 to 170,000 of these bombs were dropped during the war.
Här står det klart och tydligt att bombmattor osv användes i tätbefolkade områden:
While the F-117 Stealth fighter captured the fascination of the news media, massive B-52s carried out the bulk of the work. Flying out of bases in Diego Garcia, Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, Saudi Arabia, and other places, B-52s dropped about thirty percent of the total tonnage of bombs. B-52s were used from the first night of the war to the last. Flying at 40,000 feet and releasing 40 - 60 bombs of 500 or 750 pounds each, their only function is to carpet bomb entire areas. General McPeak told Defense Week, "The targets we are going after are widespread. They are brigades, and divisions and battalions on the battlefield. It's a rather low density target. So to spread the bombs - carpet bombing is not my favorite expression - is proportionate to the target. Now is it a terrible thing? Yes. Does it kill people? Yes."[5] B-52s were used against chemical and industrial storage areas, air fields, troop encampments, storage sites, and they were apparently used against large populated areas in Basra.
Läs mer om detta: http://www.deoxy.org/wc/wc-myth.htm
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Här står det mer om bomberna:
The U.S. dropped 88,500 tons of bombs on Iraq over 40 days, the greatest intensity of bombing ever until that time. 93% of them were "dumb" gravity bombs, and less than 75% of the "smart" bombs hit their targets. Since Operation Desert Fox in December 1998, there has been frequent bombing, which continues to this day and has killed hundreds of civilians.
Läs mer om det där: http://www.nowarcollective.com/gulfwarfactsheet.htm
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Eller en av de många anledningar till att Irak började kriga mot Kuwait:
The current conflict had its origins in the brutal 1980-88 war between Iraq and Iran. Iraq charged that while it was locked in battle, Kuwait was engaged in stealing $2.4 billion of oil from the Rumaila oil field that ran beneath the vaguely-defined Iraq-Kuwait border and was claimed in its entirety by Iraq; that Kuwait had built military and other structures on Iraqi territory; and worst of all, that immediately after the war ended, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates began to exceed the production quotas established by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), flooding the oil market, and driving prices down. Iraq was heavily strapped and deeply in debt because of the long war, and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declared this policy was an increasing threat to his country -- "economic war", he called it, pointing out that Iraq lost a billion dollars a year for each drop of one dollar in the oil price.{7} Besides compensation for these losses, Hussein insisted on possession of the two Gulf islands which blocked Iraq's access to the Gulf as well as undisputed ownership of the Rumaila oilfield.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Iraq_KH.html
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Om det pågående folkmordet:
According to Unicef, the United Nations Children’s Fund, 4,000 more children under five are dying every month in Iraq than would have died before Western sanctions were imposed. Over the eight years that these sanctions have been in place, 500,000 extra children under five are estimated to have died.
http://www.zmag.org/edwinthalliday.htm
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Eller om hur turkiska styrkor tillåts bomba kurderna sönder och samman, dom har fått ihjäl ungefär 30 000 hittils, och drivit miljoner på flykt osv:
Royal Air Force pilots have protested for the first time about their role in the bombing of Iraq. Pilots patrolling the so-called no-fly zone in the north of the country have spoken angrily about how they have been ordered to return to their base in Turkey in order to allow the Turkish air force to bomb the Kurds in Iraq - the very people the British are meant to be "protecting".
http://www.zmag.org/pilgerflyzone.htm
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Eller ni kanske vill se på film istället, ni med stadiga internetuppkopplingar: http://pilger.carlton.com/iraq/film