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The Kuwaitis never cleaned the place up because they never clean anything up. If someone else doesn't do the sh!t work for them, it doesn't get done. Which is why they are despised in the Arab world.

Upon further thought, though, I realize that Powell did not refer to the people in this column as "civilians," but as "non-combatants." I understand there is a difference, but even he was forced to admit that the U.S. had no business destroying that column.

Why would civilians be on the road leading FROM Kuwait into Iraq? Those weren't civilians, those were Hussein's occupiers, many of them people who had used power drills on Kuwaiti knees before they tried to flee with stolen property.

In war, you make your enemies surrender. You do NOT let them rape and pillage at will and then bid them 'fare thee well' as they make of with what they please. If they don't surrender, you kill them. In that way, they will never consider invading the territory of others again, or fight you ever again. If they surrender, by all means be merciful (though wary), but only then.

As for the comment that 'Kuwaitis never clean things up,' please tell me how Iraq has cleaned up the mess it made? Tell me how gracious it was for the Iraqis to set the oil wells of a neighboring nation alight, and how they pumped the oil into the sea and polluted it, how they tried to foul the water supplies of neighboring nation's desalinization plants, even in defeat despoiling everything they could?

I've got a US flag here from the Gulf War. It still carries the stench of petroleum smoke and is spattered with oil from Iraqi environmental 'concern.' And they left many to speak of their barbarity while 'guests' in Kuwait.

Iraq EARNED the highway of death.