Shock and awe, like fireworks or something, bombs are not toys....i see a pattern, again, who are they trying to fool?  Liberation of the Iraqi people b/c of one bad man, w/ others conspiring with him.  Property destruction, disturbing the peace, murder of innocent civilians.  Then like, surreptitiously, like we are stupid, here come the oil companies, it is obvious what is going on, broadly at least, not every detail.  A quarter of a century ago, more or less, another gop in office..

Yes, the U.S. bombed Baghdad with cruise missiles numerous times, notably during the 1991 Gulf War, in 1993 to target intelligence facilities, and significantly at the start of the 2003 Iraq War, where initial strikes involved hundreds of Tomahawk missiles as part of the "Shock and Awe" campaign to decapitate Saddam Hussein's regime. These attacks used Tomahawk cruise missiles, fired from Navy ships, and precision-guided bombs from stealth jets, targeting key government and military sites in the capital.