The son of a woman who worked for our family drove trucks in Viet Nam. He told his mother how the Viet Cong would place babies in the road in order to stop U.S. trucks. They knew OUR guys cared about things like innocent life.
That's why Saddam hid his weapons in schools and residential areas. The apeaseniks can say all they want that we "gave him WMDs" and we are responsible for the Hallabjah massacre (we didn't, but that's another story) and that we supposedly killed thousands of civilians going in to depose, but the bottom line is that Saddam knew we valued human life, and he made tactical choices that depended on those values.
Also, your story brings to mind an item from the Winter Soldier testimony, where one of the fake vets claimed that he was a Chinook crewman in the 228th Battalion, 1st Cavalry, and they used to use rotor wash (which could get up to 100mph) to blow South Vietnamese people around, including a game where they would surprise them during the morning bathroom break on the way out to the rice paddies and blow them around in the village's latrine area. He also told how his crew accidentally blew a little boy in front of a truck while lifting a howitzer, and how he and the flight engineer were joking about it afterward because the military "brainwash[es] you..[to] take all the humanness out of you."
As usual, our enemies have more respect for us than the leaders of the anti-war crowd.
Thank you all very much for your compliments, I appreciate them very much.