Mustafa was severely injured when a cruise missile slammed into a working-class Basra neighborhood. His six-year-old brother Haider was killed in the blast. This was in 1999, in the so-called no-fly zone. Clinton had bombed the country relentlessly for eight long years, and enforced sanctions that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children -- showing that the murder of innocent Iraqi civilians and the wholesale destruction of an ancient civilization has been a twenty-year long bipartisan enterprise.
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