Mr. Kerry, Is THAT Really You?

[Scootaloo]

84. KittyWampus, allow me to explain something to you...

The weapons we will be using are very likely these;

That's a tomahawk missile.

Now, if you're not aware of what a missile is, it's basically a self-propelled, guided bomb. When it impacts or is set off, it explodes, having an effect like this;


Now here's the thing about explosions... explosions aren't precise. They create a concussive wave, basically a spehrical wall of air and fire that picks up debris - things laying around, rubble from the impact and explosion, shards of the missile itself - and sends it flying at slightly faster than the speed of sound, for a varying distance (depending on the payload of the missile).

Anything caught within this sphere tends to die. Beyond the blast radius, people can still be severely injured and killed by flying debris. If the strike is against a building, pieces or the whole thing can collapse, crushing people, sending more debris out, raising clouds of dangerous and toxic dust and smoke, etc.

If you throw this sort of weapon at a populated area, you are, one hundred percent, ABSOLUTELY intentionally targeting civilians. There's no fucking away around it. No, it doesn't matter where the cross-hairs are centered on, because by design the weapon is going to kill and maim in a large radius around that point.

So yes, when we fire these:

into a place like this:

We are intentionally and knowingly creating these:


Spare me this "Golly shucks, it's an innocent accident when we do it!" bullshit act. We know what missiles fucking do.