roar magi want give testimony call highways death two kuwaiti roadways litter remain 2,000 mangle iraqi military vehicles char dismember body tens thousands iraqi soldier withdraw kuwait february 26th 27th 1991 compliance un resolutions.us plan trap long convoy disable vehicles front rear pound result traffic jam hours like shoot fish barrel say one us pilot horror still see.on inland highway basra mile mile burn smash shatter vehicles every description tank armor cars truck autos fire truck accord march 18 1991 time magazine sixty miles coastal highway iraqi military units sit gruesome repose scorch skeletons vehicles men alike black awful sun say los angeles time march 11 1991 450 people survive inland road bomb surrender case 60 miles coastal road 60 miles every vehicle strafe bomb every windshield shatter every tank burn every truck riddle shell fragment survivors know likely cab truck bomb much push grind impossible see contain drivers windshields melt away huge tank reduce shrapnel even vietnam see anything like pathetic say major bob nugent army intelligence officer one-sided carnage racist mass murder arab people occur white house spokesman marlin fitzwater promise us coalition partner would attack iraqi force leave kuwait surely one heinous war crimes contemporary history iraqi troop drive kuwait us troop bush administration maintain retreat order regroup fight fact withdraw go home respond order issue baghdad announce comply resolution 660 leave kuwait 5:35 p.m. eastern standard time baghdad radio announce iraq foreign minister accept soviet cease-fire proposal issue order iraqi troop withdraw postions hold august 1990 compliance un resolution 660. president bush respond immediately white house say spokesman marlin fitzwater evidence suggest iraqi army withdraw fact iraqi units continue fight continue prosecute war next day february 26 1991 saddam hussein announce baghdad radio iraqi troop indeed begin withdraw kuwait withdrawal would complete day bush react call hussein announcement outrage cruel hoax eyewitness kuwaitis attest withdrawal begin afternoon february 26 1991 baghdad radio announce 2:00 local time morning government order troop withdraw massacre withdraw iraqi soldier violate geneva conventions 1949 common article iii outlaw kill soldier combat point contention involve bush administration claim iraqi troop retreat regroup fight claim way massacre occur could consider legal international law fact claim false obviously troop withdraw remove combat direct order baghdad war iraq quit would fully comply un resolutions attack soldier return home circumstances war crime.iraq accept un resolution 660 offer withdraw kuwait soviet mediation february 21 1991. statement make george bush february 27 1991 quarter would give remain iraqi soldier violate even us field manual 1956 1907 hague convention govern land warfare also make illegal declare quarter give withdraw soldier february 26,199 follow dispatch file deck uss ranger byline randall richard providence journal air strike iraqi troop retreat kuwait launch feverishly carrier today pilot say take whatever bomb happen close flight deck crew work strain lone ranger theme often pass projectile choice take long load new york time reporter maureen dowd write iraqi leader face military defeat mr. bush decide would rather gamble violent potentially unpopular grind war risk alternative imperfect settlement hammer soviets iraqis world opinion might accept tolerable short rather accept offer iraq surrender leave field battle bush us military strategists decide simply kill many iraqis possibly could chance last continue story roar magazineread iraq news 21st century wire iraq file iraq 1991 us carpet bomb highway death