6:41 p.m. - 2003-01-31
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Bushies Order Takeout
As President Bush was putting the finishing touches on his State of the Union address, the Pentagon top brass were talking about "A-Day," short for "Air Strikes Day."
On A-Day the air force and navy will launch 300 to 400 cruise missiles at targets in Iraq, CBS reported Saturday. That's more missiles than were launched during the entire 40-day Persian Gulf war of 1991.
Then, on A-Day plus one, they'll bombard Iraq with 400 more missiles. "There will not be a safe place in Baghdad," one Pentagon official told CBS. There are 4 million civilians in Baghdad, of whom 2 million are children.
The Pentagon likes A-Day because it supposedly concentrates on the psychological destruction of the enemy's will to fight, rather than on the physical destruction of his military forces. They won't admit it, but this is another horrible policy shift. This is what Hitler did to London in World War II. What Bush proposes is not collateral damage, but a level of civilian destruction not seen since the Second World War, with tens of thousands of intended civilian casualties.
-Taken from "The Village Voice"
