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Old 10-10-2002, 12:21 PM   #29
russotto
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Originally posted by Xugumad
One of the main targets in the Gulf War (and subsequent bombings) was Iraq's water infrastructure. With its destruction, the civilian population would be slowly poisoned. Madeleine Albright - in 1996 60 Minutes interview - unhappily admitted that the death of more than half a million Iraqi children was a high, but necessary price to pay.
The figure of half a million Iraqi children was never substantiated. It was made up out of whole cloth.

Yes, infrastructure is targeted during war. Kind of hard to make a war without killing your enemies and destroying their stuff... that's pretty much what war is all about.
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