On this day in 1991, the US launched war against Iraq. The war began with a devastating air campaign, which directly targeted civilian infrastructure.
The war ki!!ed over 100,000 people & included the use of napalm, cluster bombs, depleted uranium.
George H. W. Bush began the war by ordering 42 days of consecutive bombing of Iraq.
US and coalition aircraft flew over 100,000 missions, dropping 85,000 lbs of bombs on Iraq, making it one of the most intensive aerial bombardments in military history
During the air campaign, the US & its allies intentionally bombed & destroyed centers for civilian life like: commercial and business districts, schools, hospitals, mosques, churches, shelters, residential areas, historical sites, private vehicles and government offices.
The US dropped cluster bombs on civilian evacuation routes like the highway between Baghdad and Amman, Jordan. US jets dove low and repeatedly fired machine gun rounds and rockets at hundreds of civilian vehicles including buses, ki!!ing thousands
Despite lots of talk about “smart bombs”, some 90% of the weapons used were unguided “dumb bombs” with poor accuracy. The US also used 286,000kg of depleted uranium, poisoning vast ares of the country
The US bombing left Iraq in near apocalyptic conditions & as a result, 100,000 people died after the war from dehydration, dysentery, diseases, and malnutrition, inability to obtain effective medical assistance and debilitation from hunger, cold, shock and distress
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