The men died shortly after arriving at Bagram air base north of the Afghan capital, Kabul. The first man died December 3 of a pulmonary embolism and the second one December 10 of a heart attack.
Autopsies found that “blunt force trauma” was a contributing factor in both cases, military sources said.
Both death certificates have “homicide” checked off for the cause of death. The other options on the death certificates are natural, accident or suicide. U.S. military personnel conducted the autopsies.
Both marines said they were most frustrated by the practice of some Iraqi soldiers to use unarmed women and children as shields against American bullets. They called the tactic cowardly but agreed that it had been effective. Both Sergeant Schrumpf and Corporal McIntosh said they had declined several times to shoot at Iraqi soldiers out of fear they might hit civilians.
Wasn’t this covered already? Didn’t that radio interview bring up that Iraqis realize they might die, but under Saddam they WILL die and are willing to take that chance?
Also I thought ‘The Bruce’ was Bruce Springstein? Or is he ‘the boss’?
Holy shit, watta moron. One radio interview covers the opinion of all Iraqis regarding whether or not they are willing to die in our invasion. Whomever conducted that interview should come over to the US; we’d have instant election results with one interview!
