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...hard to recall now, in our video-saturated world, the dramatic impact of that first grainy videotape of real combat operations. U.S. Army General Norman Schwarzkopf wowed the world 19 years ago during the first Gulf War, when he swapped his maps and pointer for a large video screen. "I'm now going to show you a picture of the luckiest man in Iraq," the general said as the screen showed the fellow crossing a bridge moments before a U.S. bomb obliterated it. The effect was instantaneous, putting anyone with a TV inside the cockpit to witness death and destruction...
President George H.W. Bush awarded medals to Generals Norman Schwarzkopf and Colin Powell - who also earned one from Clinton - Secretary of State James Baker, then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft in 1991. In a similar move, President George W. Bush gave the nod to Tommy Franks, the retired Army general who led the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions; former CIA Director George Tenet; and L. Paul Bremer, who oversaw reconstruction in Iraq. Bush said the three men had "played pivotal roles in great events" to make "our country more secure" - a sentiment that wasn't exactly...
...Pass intended for Nicolai "Stormin Norman" Schwarzkopf. Just sayin...
...solid farming stock, he was always more interested in fashion than in fertilizer. "I can't explain this. There was no one in my family like this. I have checked back several generations," he says. Sälzer's résumé includes four years with hair-care giant Schwarzkopf. "Hair care is very close to fashion," says Sälzer, the father of four sons. "For women, it is the only thing you can change. I would not say I was fashionable, but at Schwarzkopf, we worked a lot with Vivienne Westwood...
Hashem's motivation may have been to save the lives of his own troops, who stood little chance against U.S. military might. And it was not his first contact with the Americans. In 1991 he negotiated a cease-fire with General Norman Schwarzkopf at the end of the first Gulf War. (Schwarzkopf would later say he was "suckered" by Hashem, who persuaded him to permit Iraq the use of helicopters later deployed by Saddam to kill thousands of rebellious Shi'ites.) Hashem rose to chief of staff of the Iraqi army and then Defense Minister. He remained popular with...