alt.war.iraq

1. Sept. 17 airpower summary: Maintainers keep them flying
/news/ ?id=123068535

114 US/UK bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today
Afghanistan, being bombed since 2001 = 6 years
Iraq, being bombed since 2003 = 4 years

A terrible, even more disastrous, bombing war on Iran next?
Then keep on bombing it for another 5 to 10 years?
With another million dead?

2. A remarkable article about bombing non-Christian
people to smithereens in their own countries:
DEATH from ABOVE
/atimes/Middle_East/
>From Dresden in Germany, Tokyo in Japan and now
Baquba and Baghdad in Iraq, and now again in
Afghanistan's tribal villages, the US military has been
'HOOKED ON AIRPOWER'.

That addiction will only grow stronger as US ground troops
gradually withdraw from Iraq. And with a humilating defeat
in Afghanistan getting closer, the bombing there will be escalated
too, increasingly leaving civilians to continue to take the heat.
- by Tom Engelhardt (Jul 11, '07)
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3. A FALLACY that 'BOMBS' - literally
/atimes/Middle_East/
US and Israeli ill-conceived reliance on air power to fight urban
guerilla warfare has 'unintended' consequences. Dead civilians,
and decimated homes, schools and hospitals, all strengthen
and unify opponents, the people and resistance fighters,
and portend an ominous future for US geopolitical goals.
This gory violence will never win hearts and minds.
It probably was never supposed to do that.
By Khody Akhavi (Jul 11, '07)
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Most wars are immoral, especially bombing wars
on countries 10,000 miles away from our shores,
waged for oil, gas and profits. That makes them
robber-type colonial wars. No doubt whatsoever.

Michael McKinley - USA