I’m trying to point you to something on the net about the Seymour Hersh investigation of “Drug Czar” Gen. Barry McCaffrey’s command during the Persian Gulf War, but the search engines are not coming up with anything. Renowned investigative reporter Hersh started out to dig up dirt on McCaffrey’s war on drugs but a former colleague told him to look instead at McCaffrey’s role in Desert Storm. It appears that there were at least three incidents during which American forces under McCaffrey’s command fired on disarmed or surrendering Iraqi troops; two of the incidents appear to have been after the ceasefire. Hersh interviewed more than 200 enlisted men and officers in reaching his conclusions about the inappropriateness of attacks that McCaffrey ordered; the general ends up appearing to have been consumed with bloodlust. Overwhelming Force, a long piece reporting on this, will appear in next week’s New Yorker. I heard both Hersh and McCaffrey interviewed last night on NPR’s All Things Considered; of course McCaffrey denies the allegations, to my mind evasively and unconvincingly. Update: Here’s the text of Hersh’s article.