Highway of Death Revisisted(My Title)

Internet | Unknown | Joyce Chediac

[NC Conservative]

I thought this would be a topic everyone would enjoy reading and picking apart.

[canuck_conservative]

Yeah, war is hell. People get killed. Now, Joyce, tell us about all the innocent Kuwaitis that were killed when Saddam invaded - with malice, and without warning.

Cry me a river, babe.

[Starrgaizr]

The real crime was letting the rest of the RG escape back to put down the rebellion and oppress the Iraqui people for another decade. Bomb again. Harder.

[Lexington Green]

... and a beautiful sight it was.

[Lexington Green]

... and a beautiful sight it was.

[AdamSelene235]

No first hand knowledge but the AF folk I know say the vehicles were rapidly abandoned and mostly equipment was destroyed after the front and end of the convoy were hit.

Makes sense to me. I mean, would *you* sit in your vehicle with all that bombing going on?

[tet68]

The time to slaughter the enemy is when they are routed
and in retreat.

It's just how it's done, all through history.

This is why the numbers of dead from the early campaigns
were so lopsided, once one side began to flee, they were
open to decimation.

[dep]

over my desk as i write this is what was once an iraqi ak-47. it is well and truly welded through the kindly services of a skilled a-10 driver. it is from the basra road. its previous owner showed no need for it. good.

though i do wish we would have availed ourselves of the opportunity to delete saddam (and his sons) at that time -- it's as if we're always slapping ourselves upside the head and saying, "oh, u.n., you are too clever for us -- here you've tricked us again!"

dep

[marron]

This was the occupying force that had butchered Kuwaitis, and looted and pillaged. Justice is hell, but it is still justice.

[tet68]

This is also why an escape route is generally left to them,
faced with standing their ground they will fight to the death, but given a chance to flee, even a small one and
they will begin to withdraw.
That of course is the most dangerous operation they can perform, a successful withdrawal is a wonderous thing.

[spunkets]

"I thought this would be a topic everyone would enjoy reading and picking apart."

LOL! You got your ear to the wind waitin' for all the screams and hollers, don't you?

" It's pathetic," said Major Bob Nugent, an Army intelligence officer. This one-sided carnage, this racist mass murder of Arab people, occurred while White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater promised that the U.S. and its coalition partners would not attack Iraqi forces leaving Kuwait. This is surely one of the most heinous war crimes in contemporary history."

Pure BS. The Iraqis ran at the approach of the coalition forces and did not surrender. Race also had zero to do with it. They invaded and killed the citizens of another country, who's only deed to instigate the murderous attack was to tell the murderous dictator, tyrant sodom to pay up on his debts. Mass murder of Arab people my rear! This Joyce woman needs to refrain from heavy substance abuse.

[Daus]

Baghdad radio announced that Iraq's Foreign Minister had accepted the Soviet cease-fire proposal and had issued the order for all Iraqi troops to withdraw to postions held before August 2, 1990 in compliance with UN Resolution 660.

It's a shame they wern't fighting the Soviets.

[Physicist]

I thought this would be a topic everyone would enjoy reading and picking apart.

I'm for allowing it to stand unrebutted.

Given that our enemies won't love us under any circumstances, it is well that they should fear us. Let the anticipation of American atrocities ride on their backs as they march into battle.

[eshu]

It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. pilot. The horror is still there to see.

If that's what we had to do in order to restore Democracy to Kuwait, so be it!

[IronJack]

The actual number of rags killed on the Basra highway is unknown. But although the carnage looks horrible from the number of demolished vehicles, not every vehicle equals a death. In most cases, even a thieving Iraqi looter had the brains to abandon ship when he spotted an Apache or Cobra hovering nearby.

And even if every single vehicle was as crowded as an Indian commuter train, these were enemy soldiers, not Cub Scouts out for a jamboree. Our goal was to eliminate Saddam's ability to wage war by halting the flight of his "elite" troops from Kuwait back to santuary in Iraq, where we could not chase them because of the UN resolution. One look at that highway would have dissuaded many a towelhead from taking shots at Uncle Sam, I suspect.

[John H K]

There are an infinite number of totally bogus and fabricated war death figures floating around the leftist whacko community....the number of dead in the first Gulf War (very unlikely there were more than 10,000 military AND civilian Iraqi dead in the ENTIRE war, much less the "Highway of Death").

Another one is the "thousands of Panamanian civilians" killed in Bush's Panama invasion, which again is wholly and completely bogus.

[okie01]

"In fact, they were withdrawing, they were going home, responding to orders issued by Baghdad, announcing that it was complying with Resolution 660 and leaving Kuwait."

Except that the deadline for complying with Resolution 660 had well passed. That deal had been off the table for days.

[narby]

One of the biggest defeats we handed the Nazi's was when they were retreating from the Hedgerows of Normandy. We hit them from the air and took out huge numbers of vehicles.

The only difference was, we took prisoners and held them until Germany was totally defeated. Not send them back before the job was finished, the way we did the Iraqis.

[MHGinTN]

I have a friend who drove one of those A-10's. He estimated that no more than 300 Iraqis stayed (dead or alive) with their vehicles. Thousands off of Mutla Ridge were processed as POW's or escaped capture to return as Saddam's goons against Iraqi citizens, later.

[WoofDog123]

Apparently in the american-socialist newthink, you cannot attack enemy forces if your odds of winning are too high.

It is amazing how this humanitarian anti-darwinism is controlling the conduct of war.

What would Augustus have done if, say, celts from britain or ireland (both not under roman control at this point, nor would ireland/hibernia ever be) had conducted a mass murder attack in rome?


1. Attempted to negotiate with celtic leaders on the british isles to address root causes.
2. Attacked only 'military areas' in a society where most men could be expected to bear arms.
3. Kill all men in tribal areas related to the raid, sell everyone else into slavery, and otherwise conquer or federate the rest of the 2 islands (at least up to the area of the future antonine wall, I would assume)