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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (703318)	9/22/2005 4:16:07 PM
From: cirrus	Respond to of 769670

We're not fire bombing cities anymore, and the precision munitions are incredibly accurate, but you can't bomb a city without killing civilians. Do you remember during Gulf War I - we destroyed a bunker that was said to be emitting military radio signals? Perfect shot. We didn't scratch the houses on either side. Unfortunately, area residents had taken shelter there during the nightly bombing raids - they're scary even though you're not a target. Reports said nearly a thousand civilians died in that bunker. It might have been a ploy by Saddam to cast America in a bad light, but nevertheless civilians were killed. That single incident alone was the 10:1 ration for that war... 100 Americans, 1000 Iraqi civilians. Even in today's war, reports regularly surface of soldiers fearing a car bomb firing on a car that wouldn't stop and killing a car load of civilians. There are warnings to the drivers all over but, nevertheless, it happens often. We shot at an Italian journalist on her way to the airport under those circumstances. Given the number of Iraqis reported killed in car bombs and what have you every day, I don't find the 10:1 ratio excessive.