[lit-ideas] Re: Willie Pete, well, okay, a little bit

  • From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:36:09 -0500

Citation of the level of Iraqi conscripts from a British reporter:

A British correspondent, Stephen Sackur, happened to come across the remains of an Iraqi convoy that had "panicked, seizing any vehicle that looked capable of taking them to Iraq before the Allies could close in." The scale of the American attack on this helpless convoy appalled him:

Was it necessary to bomb the entire convoy? What threat could these pathetic remnants of Saddam Hussein's beaten army have posed? Wasn't it obvious that the people of the convoy would have given themselves up willingly without the application of such ferocious weaponry? The hundreds who, by some miracle, did survive were duly taken prisoner. They included *two women* and a *child*

Who were these Iraqis killed in their hundreds, burnt beyond recognition on the Mutla Ridge? It's a fair bet that most of them were nothing more than conscripts—regarded by Saddam Hussein as expendable.[51]
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/3019

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