quote -"The generals love napalm" - commander of Marine Air Group 11

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"We napalmed both those (bridge) approaches...The generals love napalm"

--- Col. James Alles, commander of Marine Air Group 11,
told the San Diego Union-Tribune.


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http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030805/APN/308050831

Report: Marines dropped devices similar to Napalm on Iraqi troops

The Associated Press

SAN DIEGO --
Marine Corps fighter pilots and commanders say they dropped firebombs similar to napalm on Iraqi troops earlier this year, according to a report published Tuesday.

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"We napalmed both those (bridge) approaches," said Col. James Alles, commander of Marine Air Group 11, told the San Diego Union-Tribune. "Unfortunately, there were people there because you could see them in the (cockpit) video.

"They were Iraqi soldiers there. It's no great way to die," Alles added.

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"The generals love napalm," said Alles. "It has a big psychological effect."

The firebombs were used again in April against Iraqis near a key Tigris River bridge, north of Numaniyah, the Marines said. There were reports of another attack on the first day of the war.

During the war, Pentagon spokesmen denied that napalm was being used, saying the Pentagon's stockpile had been destroyed two years ago. Napalm, a thick, burning combination of polystyrene, gasoline and benzene, was used against people and villages in Vietnam. Its use drew widespread criticism.

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quote :

"Nothing else in the world smells like that.... I love the smell of napalm in the morning.... It smells like victory."

-- Colonel Kilgore , in Apocalypse Now (film) 1979



ATTRIBUTION: Francis Ford Coppola (b. 1939), U.S. filmmaker, Michael Herr, screenwriter, and John Milius, screenwriter. Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall), in Apocalypse Now (film) (1979).


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In 1979, Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece Apocalypse Now shocked the world in its brutally powerful portrayal of the Vietnam War. Loosely adapted from Joseph Conrad's Hearts of Darkness, the plot follows a soldier, Captain Willard, as he journeys up a dangerous river in Vietnam in a secret mission to assassinate a Colonel Kurtz, who is believed by the military to have gone insane in the jungle. What he finds instead, is the madness and despair that lurks within men. Beautifully shot by renowned cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, this film is probably the most powerful war film of all time, not dumbing down its subject matter with bullets and action, but is actually a carefully constructed character study of how little by little, men slowly go insane in times of mental duress.

Or is that just against civilians?