Editing Gulf War (section)

===Coalition bombing of Iraq's civilian infrastructure===
In the 23 June 1991 edition of ''The Washington Post'', reporter Bart Gellman wrote: 
{{blockquote|Many of the targets were chosen only secondarily to contribute to the military defeat of Iraq&nbsp;... Military planners hoped the bombing would amplify the economic and psychological impact of international sanctions on Iraqi society&nbsp;... They deliberately did great harm to Iraq's ability to support itself as an industrial society&nbsp;...<ref>23 June 1991, Washington Post, Bart Gellman</ref>}}
In the Jan/Feb 1995 edition of ''Foreign Affairs'', French diplomat Eric Rouleau wrote: 
{{blockquote|[T]he Iraqi people, who were not consulted about the invasion, have paid the price for their government's madness&nbsp;... Iraqis understood the legitimacy of a military action to drive their army from Kuwait, but they have had difficulty comprehending the Allied rationale for using air power to systematically destroy or cripple Iraqi infrastructure and industry: electric power stations (92 percent of installed capacity destroyed), refineries (80 percent of production capacity), petrochemical complexes, telecommunications centers (including 135 telephone networks), bridges (more than 100), roads, highways, railroads, hundreds of locomotives and boxcars full of goods, radio and television broadcasting stations, cement plants, and factories producing aluminum, textiles, electric cables, and medical supplies.<ref>"The View From France: America's Unyielding Policy toward Iraq," ''Foreign Affairs'', Vol. 74, No. 1, January/February 1995, pp.61–62</ref>}}
However, the UN subsequently spent billions rebuilding hospitals, schools, and [[water purification]] facilities throughout the country.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Rubin |first=Michael |title=Sanctions on Iraq: A Valid Anti-American Grievance? |journal=[[Middle East Review of International Affairs]] |volume=5 |issue=4 |url=http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2001/issue4/mrubin.pdf |pages=100–115 |date=December 2001 |author-link=Michael Rubin (historian) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060907153101/http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2001/issue4/mrubin.pdf |archive-date=7 September 2006 |access-date=24 May 2017}}</ref>