I just had a revelation. From this article, I read the paragraph:

The inspectors arrived in the Iraqi capital as allied warplanes bombed Iraqi air defense systems in the northern no-fly zone after the U.S. military said the jets were fired on during routine patrols. Iraq considers such patrols a violation of its sovereignty and frequently shoots at them.

If Iraq frequently shoots at us, why the @#%& do we need any other reason to bomb the crap out of them?! We’re the good guys – we’re the people who help others around the world – and thus attacking us is proof one is insanely evil and must be destroyed. What we really should have done was obliterate Iraq the second a single radar locked on one of our planes. Otherwise, we give countries the impression they can attack us and only get a lot of people killed instead of everyone killed. Next time we get fired upon, let’s not respond immediately and blow up the installations with anti-radar missiles. Instead, let’s send some special ops people to follow the soldiers responsible to their homes. After we find out where they live, we destroy those entire cities. That’ll learn people that Americans are the good guys, and, that if you cross us, we’ll kill you and everyone you care about.