re death penalty gulf war long in article optima cs arizona edu sham cs arizona edu shamim zvonko mohamed writes this is the most unmitigated bilge i ve seen in a while jim brown obviously has possession of the right wing token diplomatic alternatives including sanctions were ineffective in december former national security adviser zbigniew brzezinski told a senate committee that sanctions were costing iraq million per day and that the multinational coalition could take all the time in the world iraq he suggested was losing badly every day it defied the un demands while the community of nations won every day with no taking of life or loss of life fcnl washington newsletter as i understand that number is deceptive the reason is that the money cost was in non oil sales for the most part iraq still is not allowed to sell oil or do many of the things under the initial sanctions but is still surviving and btw the reason i brought up the blanket bombing in germany was because you were bemoaning the iraqi civilian casualties as being so deplorable yet blanket bombing was instituted because bombing wasn t accurate enough to hit industrial military targets in a decisive way by any other method at that time but in the gulf war precision bombing was the norm bullshit in the gulf massacre of all ordnance used was smart the rest that s was just regular dumb ol iron bombs and stuff have you forgotten that the pentagon definition of a successful patriot launch was when the missile cleared the launching tube with no damage or that a successful interception of a scud was defined as the patriot and scud passed each other in the same area of the sky of the i have heard figures closer to but i won t quibble your figures most was dropped in carpet bombing of regions only occupied by enemy troops a b drops a lot of bombs in one sortie and we used them around the clock not to mention other smaller aircraft using dumb munitions the patriot uses a proximity fuse the adjusted figures for number of patriot kills of ss derivitives is that figure came not from some fluke in the pentagon but a someone working with such stuff in another part of dod the statement precision bombing was the norm is true around areas where civilians were close to the target we dropped by tonnage very little bombs in populated regions explaining the figures and of the that was the smart stuff hit again try to follow me here that means of this smart arsenal missed this figure is far below all the other figures i have seen if it is indeed accurate then how do you explain the discrepancy between that figure and other figures from international organizations most figures i have seen place the hit ratio close to which is still far higher than your or does your figure say a bomb missed if the plane took off with it and the bomb never hit the target regardless of whether or not the bomb was dropped such methods are used all the time to lie with statistics the stories of hundreds of thousands of iraqi civilian dead is just plain bunk prove it i have a source that says that to date the civilian death count er excuse me i mean collateral damage is about i have never seen any source that was claiming such a figure please post the source so its reliability can be judged mccullou whipple cs wisc edu never program and drink beer at the same m time it doesn t work
