1.   Corpses litter the roadsides and charred remains of freshly cremated bodies mar the beaches.

2.   The Appalachian foothills here are a forlorn landscape of double-wides, rusting chemical drums and bald tires littering the roadside.

3.   The roadside is littered with burned-out prodigies.

4.   This time of year, with the cotton crop just in, white tufts litter the roadsides.

5.   Along the way, the roadside was littered with bomb-shattered wreckage of cars, trucks and the occasional tank damaged in U.S. airstrikes.

6.   Dozens of spent shell casings littered the roadside from where the attack took place.

7.   Hundreds of skulls and bones still litter that roadside, they said.

8.   Miles of downed cables and trees litter the roadsides.