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Ryan Clancy: “We actually went after the civilian infrastructure instead…”

Featuring: Ryan Clancy, Democratic | Wisconsin State Assembly, District 19

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Published | Video Starts at 46:20

Or if it was a smaller number, they wouldn't destroy the infrastructure. So, like, water reclamation plants and food storage and things like that that we did in the first Gulf war, We actually went after the civilian infrastructure instead of the military targets, which is a war crime. but we'll save that for another episode. That is another day. But it was, a lot of us were sitting around waiting to be bombed, and I was spending time in schools and all that, which was also really eye opening. (46:20–46:25)

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Asserts that the U.S. targeted civilian infrastructure during the Gulf War, which constitutes a war crime.

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