This one is called "News--
[AUDIO OUT] [INAUDIBLE] --but no words of the writer have been
added to it.
It's a little hard to read because one voice is the--
narrator is like a journalist, narrator.
And then there are quotes from people
the journalist interviewed.
One could do that with quotation marks and the use of italics
visually, but to indicate all of that with one's voice
is a little difficult. So I will read it as best I can.
"What you saw was a bunch of trenches
with arms sticking out, plows mounted
on tanks, combat earth movers.
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.
Body count, 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 650
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 50,000 to 70,000
killed in the trenches.
Private Joe Queen was awarded a Bronze Star
for burying trenches with his earth mover.
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."
[APPLAUSE]
I forgot to read part of the title, which
was the actual headline in The Seattle Times,
"US Buried Iraqi Soldiers Alive in Gulf War."