quixote wrote: "During the last Gulf war, the "highway of death" incident happened after the hostilities had officially stopped. No war crimes trial. The guy who ordered this illigal massacre was promoted." Totally wrong (unsurprisingly). The Iraqi force (that'd be the murderers, the rapists, the looters, the torturers...) fleeing Kuwait were destroyed on the 'highway of death' while hostilities were still very much 'officially' engaged. The force was destroyed because it was a viable fighting force that could be a later threat (much the same reason the Republican Guard was deliberately targetted). Even with the carnage resulting from the bombing, most of the personel in the column escaped on foot. As soon as the possibility of any viable Iraqi counter attack was eliminated (by destroying viable armies in Kuwait and Southern Iraq), the US led coalition stopped its advance and sought talks with the Iraqis. The coalition stuck to its limited UN mandate (too limited in my opinion). The so called 'anti-war' movement were very quiet when Iraq invaded Kuwait and carried out attrocities during the occupation. The shouting only started when it became clear that the US wasn't going to stand for it. The 'anti-war' movement isn't anti-war, it's anti-US. A few of these people might be brave enough to speak out if they didn't enjoy the cosy benefit of living free in a Western democracy, but most of them are hypocritical, posturing, moral cowards. "Nelson Mandela helped a lot today." Yeah, I thought so. He exposed himself as the totally overated lightweight he is with his hysterical blathering. I'm sure Colin Powell was impressed by the bit about the US undermining the UN because the Secretary General is "a black man". That was hilarious.