Highway of Death

Well, the pilots said there's a trench, a heavy fortified trench, with approximately 100 to 200 Iraqi soldiers in it.

And they confirmed that with none of us in the trenches, cleared them hot, they mowed the trenches I mean just like spraying weed killer in the ditches and then after that we moved in looking for any intelligence pilfering through pockets trying to find any maps or anything and one fella had a I remember he had a picture of his family in his shirt pocket and I put it back in his pocket where I found it and that was it we moved on our supply truck came and we kept pushing north and then tell you about the highway of death The Marines were coming.

The Grand War started.

We were pushing forward.

I mean, just black, burnt, charred bodies.

And the human tongue swells about the size of a softball.

and sticking out of those charred skulls because I guess the tongue holds moisture and it just boils it and I mean it's just an image you'll never forget so that was the highway of death and shortly after that that was the ground war was over there was talks about continued advance into Iraq And President Bush said, no, our objective was met.

Our only mission was to liberate Kuwait, and we've done that.

Call of Duty is a game that has gone, a series that has been presented as being a Michael Bay-esque take on, you know, war and that kind of stuff, but if you really take a step back, it is very, very, very political.

I mean, I think about a little while back, and I can't remember exactly which, uh, Call of Duty it was, but it was one of them where they depicted, uh, a thing that happened in Iraq, um, an area called the Highway of Death, and in the Call of Duty game when they depicted it, they actually changed the perpetrators to be not the American side.

So that was something that politics is used to still manipulate people in games, right? Like, uh, people around games.

Stuff like, for example, there was that story recently where the American army and the military, they are allowing, uh, their members who commit to staying in the army for additional certain amount of years to play...

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

And that is a, a kind of like, it feels like it could occupy the same space that Spec Ops: The Line did, but it also, and it also is made by a group of people who previously worked on games like Uncharted, and also that specific Call of Duty game that did the thing with the Highway of Death.

So I'm interested in seeing how that beco- that could be a ca- uh, that could be the first example in a long time of a triple A game with a big budget-

People say, you know, "A-10 Warthogs will just destroy them." That was 1992.

That was the Highway of Death after, you know, uh, we drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait.

That is 1992.

That is last century.

I saw on Twitter today a lot of people were commenting like it's still a, you know, Desert Storm era.

"Oh, remember the Highway of Death?" You know, and they're posting pictures of A-10s.

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A-10 Warthogs, bitch.