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Originally Posted by scastle
I'd just like to point out a couple of things:
1) I am sorry, but I think it reasonable to assume that most countries build their Miltary infrastructure outside population centres at least partly to minimise the impact on civilians if the place is bombed. Saddam did not do this.
He built Military bases in towns (near hospitals and schools for instance). Presumably this was in the assumption the west would not bomb them for fear of hitting innocent citizens. So, I personally blame Saddam Hussein for these deaths.
2) Saddam also killed hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of innocent Iraqi citizens.
3) Iraqi hospitals, if maintained to a reasonable standard, will have generators to power all essential equipment. Ours do.
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And all very valid points, except for the fact that they're *all* answered by the links that I posted, but which people don't seem to have bothered to *READ*!
1) We're talking about civilian infrastructure, not military targets. Targetting dams and water treatment facilities is an entirely different matter.
2) Irrelevant. We are talking about what *our* forces did (unless you believe the argument that "we had to kill them to save them")
3) Backup generators are a *temporary* measure, designed to keep the power going until the main supply is repaired. They are *NOT* designed to *keep* supplying power when 90% of the Iraqi national power grid was destroyed!