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20 January 1999
What has Iraq done?"Invaded a small and helpless neighbor"? (Panama, Grenada) "Used chemical weapons against their own people"? (Vietnam, Waco) "Violated UN resolutions"? (UNSCOM) "Maintained a military regime ignoring civilian shortages of food and health care"? (South Chicago, South Central Los Angeles, Washington D.C.) "Stockpiled weapons of mass destruction?" ( X-ray lasers cold fusion devices incendiary submunitions napalm CX VX Tomahawk cruise missiles Patriot missiles atom bombs hydrogen bombs neutron bombs People melted, apartment buildings evacuated Hospitals and reservoirs destroyed In Panama, a car sheared in half In Sudan, a medicine factory in splinters In Baghdad, blood in the sand ) |