MISSILES

The mainstream news reports that there have been thousands of missiles and bombs dropped on Baghdad. At the same time, they report only a handful of Iraqi deaths while strongly emphasizing the accuracy of U.S military weapons. For good reason, I am sketical about this. First of all, how can anyone be expected to tally all casualties when the bombing has been so continuous and unrelenting. Second, these deaths seem to have occured during hospitalization--and I suspect that for every dead person that has reached a hospital facility in Iraq there may be dozens more who have not made it. Yet another reason to be suspicious is the fact that U.S and British SOLDIERS are dying--without having a massive bombing campaign upon them.

So far, the accepted* figure of Iraqi deaths is approximatelly 100 (85% of which are civilians, of course). Some say that if a bombing campaign of the scale that the U.S is currently launching on Baghdad had occured in WWII, it would have meant the deaths of tens of thousands. This possibility alone should be reason enough for americans to investigate just how accurate these weapons really are--instead of letting the networks tell them.

Another problem is the U.S claim that it is only hitting "military targets." Apart from the several accounts that suggest the contrary, there is another important reason to be suspicious of this claim. First of all, how is the term "military target" being defined? Second, from what we're told there appears to be hundreds of military posts in Baghdad alone. That doesn't seem to make sense--since the U.S. has only several hundred AROUND THE WORLD. New York City does not have THOUSANDS of buildings PERIOD, let alone thousands of "military target". In fact, NO CITY DOES. Not that I didn't know this before, but: There's something rotten in the city of baghdad.