More damning then Downey Street

This article lays out the administrations pre-war attacks that occurred in an attempt to "soften" the Iraqi defences.

"Approximately 100 US and British planes flew from Kuwait into Iraqi airspace," Scahill writes. "At least seven types of aircraft were part of this massive operation, including US F-15 Strike Eagles and Royal Air Force Tornado ground-attack planes. They dropped precision-guided munitions on Saddam Hussein's major western air-defense facility, clearing the path for Special Forces helicopters that lay in wait in Jordan. Earlier attacks had been carried out against Iraqi command and control centers, radar detection systems, Revolutionary Guard units, communication centers and mobile air-defense systems. The Pentagon's goal was clear: Destroy Iraq's ability to resist."

How is this alright? How can we bomb a sovereign nation without congress first declaring war and without the okay of the U.N.? The answer is, we can't! There was no way to ever win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people because unlike the American people they knew that the attack began before the official declaration of war and they knew that our government was lying.