Have A Nice War

[pynchonoid]

<http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030404-56508184.htm>

[...] As thick black smoke hung over the outskirts of
Baghdad last night, American troops stood stunned by
the number of enemy forces they had killed. Bodies
dressed in the uniform of the Republican Guard and
burned-out vehicles were strewn around the roadways.
Buildings were riddled with bullet holes.
     "I hope we don't experience anything like that
again," said Sgt. Simon, 38, who gave only one name.
"It is like [the 1991 Persian Gulf war]. When I see
that many bodies, I just don't want to be here
anymore."
     As the unit regrouped on a stretch of open land,
a soldier stood looking dazed.
     "When do we know when it's over?" one Sgt. Scott
said. "You could have sent two men in to kill Saddam
Hussein. Why did we have to kill so many people? There
were so many deaths today." [...] 

<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=393784>

[...] Nasiriyah is a city of suffering. After some of
the most intense and bloody fighting yet of this war,
the United States has now declared this city of up to
300,000 people in its control – the largest city in
Iraq to have been "liberated". Liberation has come at
a price of undoubted suffering for the people of this
settlement on the Euphrates: doctors claim that up to
250 people were killed by US air strikes or artillery
attacks, and that up to 1,000 were injured.

And it is not as though the Allied victory is
complete. While much of the Iraqi army and Fedayeen
militia may have been destroyed or forced underground,
the city has been given over to lawlessness and
looting. Yesterday, the Saddam Hospital itself was
pillaged by a gang of 20 armed looters, who made off
with a haul of drugs. They even looted several of the
hospital's ambulances. [...] 

<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/04/1048962918475.html>

[...] On her last day in Baghdad, human shield Donna
Mulhearn visited the market where more than 50 Iraqis
were killed by bombing the night before. 
The ground was still covered in pools of blood, she
said. [...]

<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=394140>

Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, suggested yesterday
that mothers of Iraqi children killed by cluster bombs
would "one day" thank Britain for their use. [...] 



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