>Anyone who knows the history of this country knows we do not do that. Our military has specific strategic targets. Civilians and civilian areas are rarely, if ever, strategic targets. The clearest and most recent evidence of this was Desert Storm.

That's untrue Mark. Almost ever conflict (declared or not) that the US has been involved in as had a civillian component.
- WWII (Berlin, Hiroshima, Nagasaki)
- Vietnam
- Laos
- Iraq
- Belgrade

There isn't a single country involved in modern warfare that is innocent of targetting civilian populations.