[joan]

The Serbs were going after the KLA which would hide among the civilians. The US has destroyed cities and villages in Iraq when going after insurgents. Look at Fallujah - nearly all the homes are destroyed or damaged - out of 85,000 who lived there before the war, only 8,500 are coming back, according to the UN. Then there has been murders of civilians at checkpoints and shooting of civilian protestors in the back. Far more Iraqi civilians have died or been seriously maimed than ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo and it's going to keep getting higher. The US fights wars even messier than the Serbs, but being the only superpower means not having to be sorry about it or be judged in any court.

Fallujah residents angry over destruction from US-led campaign

On Wednesday, the United Nations said about 85,000 people have gone back to inspect their houses, but only 8,500 have decided to stay.

Few houses escaped damage from the intense American air raids late last year and the insurgent bombings and shootings that followed. Work teams have cleared rubble from the streets, but it is still tangled with downed power lines. Craters cut off access to side streets, and some buildings have walls or ceilings missing if they weren't simply destroyed.

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U.S. troops kill 8 at Iraq checkpoint

BAGHDAD -- U.S. troops opened fire near a checkpoint south of Baghdad after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb and a hospital official said Sunday at least eight people were killed in the second American attack in two days to have deadly results.

...Hours before the attack, the United States acknowledged dropping a 500-pound bomb on the wrong house during a search for terror suspects outside the northern city of Mosul. The military said in a statement that five people were killed.

The house's owner, Ali Yousef, said 14 people died when the bomb hit at about 2 a.m. Saturday in Aitha, a town 30 miles south of Mosul. An Associated Press photographer at the scene said the dead included seven children and seven adults. The discrepancy between the death counts could not be reconciled.

[mark502inf]

Then there has been murders of civilians at checkpoints and shooting of civilian protestors in the back. Far more Iraqi civilians have died or been seriously maimed than ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo and it's going to keep getting higher. The US fights wars even messier than the Serbs, but being the only superpower means not having to be sorry about it or be judged in any court.

Joan, I am not going to debate either you or Pythagorean over your use of Michael Moore talking points in your efforts to smear the U.S. military in Iraq. The issue is not a question of who fights "messier" wars. It is simply not the policy or practice of the USA to attack the civilian populace, but Milosevic's ethnic cleansing campaign in Kosovo did exactly that. You are welcome to review posts 21 & 22 above.