[AmericanInTokyo]

It appears somewhat 'routine' and yet is raising the stakes. I am sure the US or Brit pilots got lot locked on hot and then went in and leveled the place. Hope they dumped plenty of 'Defect or Die' leaflets on their way out of there.

[hchutch]

Better for that to be done when the Iraqis try to clean up the rubble.

It seems like a ramping up, all right. Kinda like a boxer jabbing and probing to find the weak points, then going for a knockout punch when he's got all the info he needs.

[Dante3]

When the Germans leveled Russian villages in WW II because they were shot at, the Nurnberg Trials call it a "war crime". Russian civilian casualties from German reprisal raids against partisans were also deemed a "war crime".

What do we call the dead Iraqi civilians our raids leave behind? oh yea, I forgot - they are "collateral damage".

No wonder the Germans want nothing to do with our upcoming attack on Iraq. They learned their lesson. We have yet to learn ours.