War on France

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russotto
The figure of half a million Iraqi children was never substantiated. It was made up out of whole cloth.

No, it was a UNICEF study. Mind you, it's well-known that Iraq did fake quite a lot of children deaths (empty coffin parades, etc). The relevant point what the Albright didn't even bother to question the number. She ignored it, and accepted that children's deaths (like the difference between 50k and 500k would have mattered to her at that point) were the price to pay.

Yes, infrastructure is targeted during war. Kind of hard to make a war without killing your enemies and destroying their stuff... that's pretty much what war is all about.

Pay attention to the thread's core issue of contention: that civilians were specifically targeted. The destruction of certain key infrastructures was meant to cause mass havoc within the population, as seen by the detailed army and DIA studies. As I already said above, this is standard procedure in any war.

Its existence was being disputed, thus the whole discussion. The numbers in the UNICEF study were exaggerated, mostly because they took children death from the Iran-Iraq biochem war into account, and because Iraq tried to sway world opinion with fake funerals. However, many deaths will now only start occurring, as tumors, disease side-effects etc. from the Gulf War are expected to come into full effect about a decade after the actual war.

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