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Originally posted by slang
This will not be Hiroshima Lotec. It is our moral and political objective to keep the civie losses to a minimum.
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I dunno about that. I remember hearing about our guided missles that could home in on and knock out a single floor in an office building, neutralizeing the target with minimum damage and loss of life. We used em in that opperation in kossavo or where ever... couple years ago... when we lost a couple of our all powerfull, unstopable stealth fighters. I don't remember exactly. We killed a huge amount of civilians there, though. Granted nothing like the old days... (see fire bombing of Dresden, Germany; WW2) but it was alot. Enough that, supposedly, the UN was going to charge us with war crimes, but 9-11 sorta disolved that. (that last bit from an ex-spook friend of mine). It just seems to me that they could have picked more military targets instead of the capital.
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Originally posted by slang
The US spooks and Special Forces have been in Baghdad for weeks. Bush *knows* who he is after and it is not the civies. Also note that we will be using new electronic warheads in the Tomahawk cruise missiles that knock out electronics through the use of EMP. People will not be directly affected by the warheads.
This is not to say there will not be losses, but I'm betting they will be low.
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electronics can be amazingly useless in house to house urban warfare. so what if we fry their radar and radios, the guns will still shoot. If (big if, i know) the iraqi military decides to be tenatious and defend every building and every block, it could get really ugly.