Teribus:

""They've been bombing Iraqi targets for ten bloody years!"

Well actually Boab they haven't - subsequent to the end of air operations called for during Desert Storm which ended early on in 1991, Iraq has only been subjected to bombing for a period of four days during Desert Fox 16th to 19th December 1998. Aircraft patroling the Northern and Southern No-Fly Zones have fired whenever acquisition radars have illuminated their aircraft, but as the armament fired in response to those occasions locks in on the radars, those targets are legitimate military targets."

http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/MiddleEast/Iraq/Bombing.asp