In 1999, the United States faced a ‘genuine dilemma’ in Iraq, reported the Wall Street Journal. ‘After eight years of enforcing a no fly zone in northern [and southern] Iraq, few military targets remain. “We’re down to the last outhouse,” one US official protested. “There are still some things left, but not many.”’79 There are still children left. Around the time that statement was made, six children died when an American missile hit Al Jumohria, a community in Basra’s poorest residential area. Sixty-three people were injured, a number of them badly burned.
