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December 28, 2012

Retired U.S. General Norman Schwarzkopf Dies at 78 
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Retired U.S. general Norman Schwarzkopf has died at the age of 78. Known
as "Stormin’ Norman," Schwarzkopf headed the first Gulf War in 1991,
which killed up to 205,000 Iraqis during the invasion and its aftermath
and decimated Iraqi infrastructure. In one of the war's most notorious
incidents, Schwartzkopf ordered U.S. forces to fire on retreating and
disarmed Iraqi forces along Iraq's Highway 80, causing hundreds of
casualties and prompting the name "Highway of Death." News of
Schwarzkopf's death comes as former President George H.W. Bush, who
ordered the first Gulf War, is in a Houston hospital in intensive care
after suffering bronchitis.

 

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