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Denise Levertov - News Report, September 1991
Work rating: Medium

U.S. BURIED IRAQI SOLDIERS ALIVE IN GULF WAR 


"What you saw was a 
bunch of trenches with 
arms sticking out." 
"Plows mounted on 
tanks. Combat 
earthmovers." 
"Defiant." 
"Buried." 
"Carefully planned and 
rehearsed." 
"When we 
went through there wasn`t 
anybody left." 
"Awarded 
Silver Star." 
"Reporters 
banned." 
"Not a single 
American killed." 
"Bodycount 
impossible." 
"For all I know, 
thousands, said 
Colonel Moreno." 
"What you 
saw was a bunch of 
buried trenches 
with people`s 
arms and things 
sticking out." 
"Secretary Cheney 
made no mention." 
"Every single American 
was inside 
the juggernaut 
impervious 
to small-arms 
fire." "I know 
burying people 
like that sounds 
pretty nasty, said 
Colonel Maggart, 
But . . . ." 
"His force buried 
about six hundred 
and fifty 
in a thinner line 
of trenches." 
"People`s arms 
sticking out." 
"Every American 
inside." 
"The juggernaut." 
"I`m not 
going to sacrifice 
the lives 
of my soldiers, 
Moreno said, it`s not 
cost-effective." 
"The tactic was designed 
to terrorize, 
Lieutenant Colonel Hawkins 
said, who helped 
devise it." 
"Schwartzkopf`s staff 
privately 
estimated fifty to seventy 
thousand killed 
in the trenches." 
"Private Joe Queen was 
awarded 
a Bronze Star for burying 
trenches with his 
earthmover." 
"Inside 
the juggernaut." 
"Impervious." 
"A lot of the guys 
were scared, he said, 
but I 
enjoyed it." 
"A bunch of 
trenches. People`s 
arms and things 
sticking out." 
"Cost-effective."
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