Their white flags, cotton fabric pleas for mercy, tremblied in the breeze as Iraqi soldiers
on the Highway Of Death begged for mercy for their families, animals and themselves.
The response of the military was to carpet bomb them and bulldoze them, many alive, into
graves. Their white flags requesting clemency became part of their burial shrouds.
Footnote:
General Norman Schwarzkopf, one of the architects of the mass
murder, was given a special award by the trophy hunt promoting
Safari Club, not for killing 300 animals but for killing 300 KINDS
of animals.
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