Thanks for the article, Patty but I'm not sure how it refutes my questioning to Randy (which he also questioned) that "hundreds of thousands of Iraqis" and that "masses of civilians" were killed in Iraq. I have never said that Iraqi soliders were not killed or that the war coverage was not sanitized. And your article does point this out (not that is makes war any less horrible):
The president was very concerned about casualties," Horner recalled. "Not just our casualties but Iraqi casualties. He was very emphatic. He wanted casualties minimized on both sides. He went around the room and asked each military commander if his orders were understood. We all said we would do our best." According to Horner, he took a number of steps to limit the use of anti-personnel bombs used during more than 30 days of air attacks on Iraqi army positions. Schwarzkopf's psychological warfare experts littered Iraqi troops with leaflets that warned of imminent attacks by B52 Strategic Bombers. Arabic warnings told troops to avoid sleeping in tanks or near artillery positions which were prime targets for 400 sorties by allied aircraft attacking day and night. "We could have killed many more with cluster munitions," Horner said of bomblets that create lethal minefields around troop emplacements once they are dropped by aircraft.
