[GraniteStateConservative]

MOAB isn't as precise as our munitions so far. We want to be snipers. Media have noted that Iraq hasn't brought reporters to see the civilian casualties like in the Gulf War. It's because there aren't any. People are getting hurt from things falling on them-- mostly AAA fire falling back to ground, but also parts of buildings thrown in the air.

Remember, we want them to give up, not dead. We haven't hit Baghdad very hard for sustained attacks because we want to give them a chance to surrender. You hit them and then give them a chance. You hit them harder and then give them a chance, etc.

[John H K]

Indeed, you are correct.

People have gotten MOAB on the brain here a bit.

1) It and the daisy cutter have never been dropped from anything but a C-130 cargo plane, which is not a combat aircraft.

2) In the 1991 Gulf War, NOTHING flew over Baghdad besides cruise missles and Stealth fighters. I'm sure NOTHING has flown over Baghdad so far other than cruise missles, Stealth Fighters, and (possibly today) Stealth Bombers.

3) if they won't fly F-15Es, F-14s, etc. over Baghdad, they're not going to fly a C-130 over it or near it.

4) We're not going to use a MOAB anywhere near a populated area. This bunker apparently was in the midst of a populated area.

[AF68]

"Media have noted that Iraq hasn't brought reporters to see the civilian casualties like in the Gulf War. It's because there aren't any.

Petah Arnett said he was at the Al Rashid Hotel on the balcony watching the 1.7 mile long presidential palace and other huge buildings just disintegrate. He was only a couple hundred yards away and felt perfectly safe. People in the neighborhood came outside in their robes and bedroom slippers and walked toward the Euphrates River to watch in shock and awe.