Talk:Bombing of Iraq (December 1998)

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The strikes came at a particularly difficult time for US President Bill Clinton, as he was impeached on December 19. --Personally i think the time was not "difficult" but "convenient", as it shifted the focus of the news media.

This articles kind of light on information; for example, how many strikes were made? What targets were hit? Etc. Would someone be able to expand on this? --Stretch 22:25, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Added expansion tag. Forgot to last time. --Stretch 03:20, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Removal 2 Scott Ritter's POV 3 title renaming 4 Desert Fox Ground War neglected

[edit] Removal

I removed a substantial portion of text that had been copied from one of the external links with little or no modification. This use of copyrighted text is not acceptable. The article left behind is presumably more incomplete as a result, but in addressing that, contributions must always be written in your own words. --Michael Snow 17:23, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scott Ritter's POV

OK guys, are we really supposed to believe that gathering intelligence against Iraq was the actual reason for the expulsion and not the pretext? It would involve circular logic to conclude that this was the case because had Saddam not impeded them, there would be no bombing. 65.185.190.240 00:38, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Furthermore, having the entire section about the "end of inspections" devoted to Scott Ritter's claims is not NPOV. 65.185.190.240 00:42, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] title renaming

Title should be renamed as the current is US-POV (WP:Milhist guidelines). See also United States bombing of Libya or NATO campaign against the Army of Republika Srpska --TheFEARgod (Ч) 15:09, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Desert Fox Ground War neglected

The article neglects to mention the US Army Special Forces and US Marine forces directly involved in cooperation with the Kurdish militias during the operation. They invaded from bases in Turkey and held northern Iraq until the bombing campaign was halted. Afterwards, the US forces had to give up all the territory they seized and all American forces had to be withdrawn from their bases in southern Turkey. Kurdish refugees were kicked out of camps in Turkey only to be massacred by Saddam's death squads when they were deported. In response, the US-supported Kurdish militias attacked both the Turks (causing them to distrust the US) and the Iraqi forces to try to create a Kurdish homeland. Anti-Hussein networks rose up against their government and were slaughtered when the US left. The result was that Turkey, formerly a staunch NATO ally, refused to host Allied and Kurdish forces during the Iraq Invasion, forcing the American stategists to use another base of operations and support. It also made Kurdish and Iraqi opposition leaders more reticent, a problem that haunts support efforts in Iraq now. Desert Fox had some short-term benefit, but in the long run it was an irresponsible campaign that shifted the burden of dealing with the Hussein threat to the next administration in office. 134.241.58.252 17:19, 29 January 2007 (UTC)