It said that a war was more or less alright with it as long as it could be guaranteed in advance that American casualties could be kept low . . . I thought that was a dishonourably narrow way of approaching the question . . . . When large numbers of Iraqis were turned into soap . . . and many others, as we've since found out, were bulldozed and buried alive and in other ways done away with and people don't even want to think about the body count . . . because they re afraid of what they might find out ."