{"id":1449,"date":"2003-04-03T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-03T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2003-04-03T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-03T23:43:00","slug":"a-splendid-little-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/04\/03\/19\/43\/a-splendid-little-war\/","title":{"rendered":"A Splendid Little War"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it seems that impatiant with criticism over the slow pace of the war, the Pentagon has indeed changed into scorch mode, switching from “precision” ordinance to those most imprecise of modern ordinance, cluster bombs. So cluster bombs<\/a> were used near Hilla, a farming village in Iraq. A Red Cross spokesman<\/a> saw the aftermath.<\/p>\n

Roland Huguenin-Benjamin says the bombings around Hilla are a “veritable horror”. “Our four-member team went to Hilla hospital south of Baghdad and what it saw there was a horror,” Mr Huguenin-Benjamin said. “There were dozens of smashed corpses.” He says he believes the air attacks have left “dozens of dead and 450 injured” … “There were women and children. All of them are civilians, farmers and their families who were on their fields or at home.” … 23-year-old Mohammad Karim explained that when residents “saw the warplanes flying at very low altitude, they rushed out of their homes toward the nearby plantation fields”. “Then it started raining cluster bombs everywhere,” he said. “People were being slaughtered like sheep.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

“There has been an incredible number of casualties with very, very serious wounds in the region of Hilla,” Huguenin said in a interview by satellite telephone. “We saw that a truck was delivering dozens of totally dismembered dead bodies of women and children. It was an awful sight. It was really very difficult to believe this was happening … everybody had very serious wounds and many, many of them small kids and women. We had small toddlers of two or three years of age who had lost their legs, their arms. We have called this a horror.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Earlier here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So it seems that impatiant with criticism over the slow pace of the war, the Pentagon has indeed changed into scorch mode, switching from “precision” ordinance to those most imprecise of modern ordinance, cluster...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t