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(about those 1998 strikes)

6:00 P.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Earlier today, I ordered America's Armed Forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq.

from: http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/New/html/19981216-3611.html as found on post I am responding too

See the 1998 strikes were on military and security targets.

That series of strikes does not compare with what the Bush administration plans to do to Iraq this time.

i.e.:

The US intends to shatter Iraq "physically, emotionally and psychologically" by raining down on its people as many as 800 cruise missiles in two days.
The Pentagon battle plan aims not only to crush Iraqi troops, but also wipe out power and water supplies in the capital, Baghdad.
It is based on a strategy known as "Shock and Awe", conceived at the National Defense University in Washington, in which between 300 and 400 cruise missiles would fall on Iraq each day for two consecutive days. It would be more than twice the number of missiles launched during the entire 40 days of the 1991 Gulf War.
"There will not be a safe place in Baghdad," a Pentagon official told America's CBS News after a briefing on the plan. "The sheer size of this has never been seen before, never been contemplated before."

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Another analysis says the attack will turn Bagdad into the new Hiroshima.

Shock & Awe: Is Baghdad the Next Hiroshima?

This new Gulf War is very different than the last and different than the UN and NATO actions that took place during the Clinton era.

Our allies in this war are only in it for what they get out of it

see: Iraq war 'could kill 500,000'

I'm Shocked and Awed that you people are so ignorant on this.

Your examples sound like the kind of trash talk an athlete does to intimidate his opponent.

Our efforts vis a vis Iraq are to liberate a persecuted people. It is not to kill and maim those people. President Bush and his administration would like to give the Iraqi people the same freedom to speak freely against their elected representatives as all the people demonstrating yesterday have the freedom to do in their respective countries.

...a Pentagon official told America's CBS News...

That's the source, eh? Mm hmm.