now we're half a there and about to turn it over to general ray smith to continue but at this particular point, the marines are on two different highways to the right and left of that red splotch. we're clearing villages that looked like this, that the poverty in which saddam enslaved the shiites was about like a 14th century. they had nothing. i mean, nothing. we got hit with some r.p.g. fire from places like this and we had this lieutenant colonel because ray and i were jumping always with the lead unit. we had a yellow s.u.v. that had been given to us kindly by this kind, old iraqi brigadier general who was captured the first day and he allowed us how he couldn't bring it into the p.o.w. camp with him so he had to leave it by the side of the road so ray and i from then on had an s.u.v. to drive around the battlefield and we saw that they were taking fire from here and r.p.g.'s and the lieutenant colonel in charge said, you're not returning fire because it wasn't hurting us and he took one look at that and said, we just level that place. why don't we do that? instead, he dismounted his