[Pitchfork]

Hate to break it to you but in WWII our troops did intentionally bomb women and children as part of a campaign to weaken the German and Japanese citizenry's will to fight. See Dresden and Hiroshima for the most extreme examples.

What is different about this war is that the US has explicitly said it would not target civilians. This is a revoultion (or more accurately a counter-revolution) in warfare that takes us back to a pre-Clauswitzian, pre-Machiavellian ethic that is much more in tune with St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.

[nicmarlo]

Hate to break it to you but in WWII our troops did intentionally bomb women and children as part of a campaign to weaken the German and Japanese citizenry's will to fight. See Dresden and Hiroshima for the most extreme examples.

This is true; however, in this case, we are specifically attempting not to conquer Iraq....only destroy its evil leaders.