Regards Dick

On February 10, 1991, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney is winding up a tour of the Gulf. During a photo opportunity he autographs a 2,000-pound laser-guided bomb. Dear Baghdad This Bud's For You, Regards Dick Cheney. Something like that.

On February 14, 1991, first reports of the Al Amiriya shelter bombing appear in the western press. U.S. Stealth fighters made two direct hits on what the Pentagon still insists was a reinforced military command-and-control bunker. Between three and four hundred Iraqi civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in the attack.

The ordnance used against the Al Amiriya bomb shelter was a 2,000-pound GBU-27 laser-guided "smart" bomb.

Of course it wasn't the one that Cheney personally endorsed.

Of course it wasn't.