Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, who led 1991 Operation Desert Storm, dead at 78
Truth is, retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf didn't care much for his popular "Stormin' Norman" nickname. The seemingly no-nonsense Desert Storm commander's reputed temper with aides and subordinates supposedly earned him that rough-and-ready moniker. But others around the general, who died Thursday in Tampa, Florida, at age 78 from complications from pneumonia, knew him as a friendly, talkative and even jovial figure who preferred the somewhat milder sobriquet given by his troops: "The Bear." That one perhaps suited him better later in his life, when he supported various national causes and children's charities [very touching!] while eschewing the spotlight and resisting efforts to draft him to run for political office. [How many Iraqi children did he kill? - We may never know.]
BBC: 1991: US bombers strike civilians in Baghdad
Revolution: The First Iraq War 1991: Mass Murder From A Safe Distance
Casi.org: Morbidity and Mortality Among Iraqi Children from 1990 Through 1998
G. Georgatos: Victims of war: Iraqi children and families - Depleted uranium and trauma
A. Bult Ito: Nothing de-pleted about 'depleted uranium'
Miami Herald: Iraq children killed by radioactive depleted uranium particles