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...even set up a helicopter-refueling depot about 25 miles behind the Iraqi border fortifications. As the deadline approached, allied engineers cut wide passages through defensive sand berms that the Iraqis had erected along the borders, creating gaps that soldiers and tanks could pour through. Allied planes began using napalm for the first time in the war, dropping it on oil- filled trenches in front of Iraqi positions. The Iraqis had planned to set fire to the oil when allied troops tried to cross; the napalm was apparently intended to burn it off prematurely so that the fires would...
...NAPALM. Bombs containing this gooey gel, made from fatty acids mixed with gasoline, produce a hellish inferno when ignited, burning up everything in the target area or splattering it with the searing, sticky jelly. The naked, screaming girl in Nick Ut's famous photo from the Vietnam War was a napalm victim. British officials say that in light of its infamous reputation the allies do not intend to use it against Saddam's troops. But napalm, which is most effective against massed troops out in the open, is among allied weapons stockpiled in the gulf, and U.S. officials...
...coalition's preparations for a major assault on Kuwait went on, in fiery showers of napalm and fuel-air bombs dropped on the Iraqi defense lines in Kuwait...
...mantra of the anti-war movement. And it's also a complete about-face from the Vietnam era. Back then, anti-war activists saw American soldiers as baby-killing monsters, armed with napalm and eager to ravage the Vietnamese people My Lai-style. In the eyes of the anti-war movement, the soldiers bore as much guilt for the prosecution of an immoral imperialist war as the president, the Pentagon and the rest of the Establishment. Returning soldiers were shamed and spit upon...
...FIRST WAR free of formal military censorship, television footage of napalm and bombings in Vietnam were beamed into millions of American living rooms. Some say they were responsible for turning public opinion against...