These actions spread devastation among often defenseless civilian populations, and all were illegal by our own laws. This is one reason why many consider us a criminal nation. There is absolutely no way for a country to claim the high moral ground in any conflict in which it is violating its own laws. We're threatening to bomb a country that can't defend itself against us, only because it hasn't done what we've told it to. No other offense has been proved or even suggested.
Kids still comprise an unusually large percentage of the Iraqi people.
President Clinton himself says so. Yet still he threatens violence. Constitutionally illegal violence. These claims went unquestioned by America's news industry. Years later The New York Times unearthed Pentagon assessments that those bombs weren't so smart after all.