European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Crusade War and Schwarzkopf from the cover kept them mute and they simply grinned Back. H. Norman Schwarzkopf was the most theatrical american in uniform since Douglas Macarthur and he strode across the runway like an actor pressing to Ward the footlights. Delta Force bodyguards strap Ping men with automatic weapons scrambled to form his personal picket line. Possessed of a deep. Love for ceremony and ritual he surveyed the set of the spectacle designed largely by him that was now about to unfold a scene drawn in spirit if not in particulars from the parlor at Appomattox the rail car at compit Cine and the polished deck of the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Except for a Low Bluff to the Southwest known to the americans As scud Mountain the desert pan was dreary and Barren a thousand shades of Buff. At Center stage stood the tents including the three general purpose mediums hastily pieced to Gether near the runway to form a single chamber for the talks. Dozens of tanks and armoured personnel carriers their tracks spattered with the mud of occupied Iraq lined the runway and the narrow Road run Ning East to the Basra Highway. A quartet of Al 0 warplanes Cut Lazy circles at 4,000 feet. The canisters of a Patriot missile Battery stood cocked and waiting South of the Airstrip. Artillerymen once again checked the azimuth and Elevation of their tubes. The in enjoy delegates would have no doubt about who had won. Schwarzkopf s generals gathered round him Swap Ping salutes and Hail fellow handshakes Gus Pago Nis the animated greek logistician the firebrand Tom Rhame commander of the 1st inf dry soft spoken Fred Franks three Star commander of Vii corps whose rolling gait bespoke the leg lost in1 Cambodia two decades before. All had been Junior officers in South East Asia forever seared by the War and the hard peace that followed. They had stayed the course after Vietnam vowing to restore Honor and competence to the american profession of arms and most important to renew the Bond Between the Republic Fred Franks and its soldiery. This Safwan March 3.1991 was their vindication. For Norman Schwarzkopf and his lieutenants this warhead lasted not six weeks but 20 years. Schwarzkopf ambled around the armistice tent nodding his approval. Ducking through the flaps heeled the wooden table on which a Young major stood fiddling with the fluorescent lights overhead. I m not Here to give them anything he boomed gesturing toward the chairs where the iraqis soon would sit. I m Here to Tell them exactly what they have to  re emerging into the wan sunlight he trumped about the bivouac Happy Warrior Stern  satisfaction was fairly won. The last time a Western army had invaded Iraq the British marched up the Tigris in 1914 and died by the thousands from heatstroke and sickness and turkish bullets during the air Campaign and land invasion commanded by Schwarzkopf fewer than 300 Allied soldiers had per shed. Among lopsided Routs the Victory ranked with Omdurman where the British and egyptians n 1898 flew or wounded 20,000 dervishes on the Banks of penile Jena where Napoleon in is Tywon two simultaneous Battles pursued his foes to the shores Ohhet Baltic and captured 140.000 prisoners. In Schwarzkopf the persian Gulf War would pro vide Amerl wih its first Battlefield Heron dec Ades. He had crushed the army of Saddam Hussein troops on jan.7.10itay. Before theal War and six was before the ground a Saul. Morning from Kuwait City he had seethed at the sight of the shattered City below darkened by the smoke from hundreds of sabotaged Oil Wells. For the first time Schwarzkopf had personally witnessed the havoc wreaked by his forces the endless Miles of blackened tanks and trucks the demolished Revet ments the cruciform smudges that had once been iraqi air planes. Later he would liken the trip to a flight into hell. But War was a hell he knew intimately during a 35-year army career including two Tours in Viet Nam he had been wounded twice. Retaining a Junior officer s feel for the Battlefield consequences of his decisions in the Gulf Campaign he had adroitly _ banked the roaring flux of forces aroused by Warto prevent killing from becoming witless Slaughter. The troops revered him shortening his formal title commander in chief. Central come to simply the  feared by his enemy lionized by his Schwarzkopf and serve woman in saudi Arabia. Nation Schwarzkopf stood in the admiring assess ment of the British commander sir Peter de Law Liere As the Man of the match.". And yet what anguish he had caused he was. A George c Marshall wryly said of Macarthur conspicuous in the matter of temperament. In the cloister of his War room in Riyadh saudi Arabia the avuncular Public Mien disappeared revealing a Man of volcanic outbursts. That is a stupid idea you retrying to get my soldiers killed he would Bellow at some cringing subordinate. During the previous months obliquely or directly he had threatened to relieve or court martial his senior ground commander his naval commander his air commanders an both army corps commanders. Secretary of defense Dick Cheney had worried sufficiently about Schwarzkopf s temper and his yen for Imperial trap pings to consider the possibility of replacing him. His rage for order he had mailed Hong Christmas presents with color coded wrapping and explicit instructions Tor their sequence of opening at times yielded to fury at perceived shortcomings and idiocies Small and Large. He raved at the Inadequacy of desert boots at Central intelligence Agency impertinence at the ponderous Pace of the army attack at the Navy s Bellico sity at Pentagon intrusion. He railed at bad weather. His Headquarters swept with his verbal  after month became a dispirited Bunker where initiative withered and even senior generate hesitated to bring him unpleasant tidings. Instead when the tirades began they sat with eyes Glassy and averted in what came to be called the stunned mul let look until his fury spent itself. In a War wit Little bad news the sin was forgivable but even for men who had seen horrific bloodletting in Vietnam no asian Jungle was More stressful than the endless weeks they spent in Norman Schwarzkopf s Riyadh basement. Even Victory had not soothed him. Behind the or Derly scene at Safwan in fact Lay one of Schwarz Kopf s More operatic rages. As the War entered its final hours the cinc had ordered that the Road Junction near Safwan Airfield be captured and had been assured that it was by the senior army commander it. Gen. John Yeosock. But when the cease fire took effect at 8 . On feb. 23, the 1st inf div which was responsible for that Page 4