News from Iraq PING!
I agree! Too bad.
Bump.
Dang, I hate it when I get tears in my eyes...awesome story, I just wish more Americans could read it.
Great Post!
Soldiers live in an existence apart from whoever happens to be issuing orders at the top. Most soldiers give their allegiance first to their country, then in varying degrees, to the current leaders. Some leaders, they would follow into the jaws of Hell, while other leaders, they privately wish would go to Hell.
But the military, being what it is, remains subservient to the titular head of state, obeying either with alacricy for the leader they genuinely like, or sullenly and hesitantly for the fake and phony they intuitively recognize as being without authority.
Only Saddam's elite Republican Guard really believed their allegiance was to Saddam alone. The rest of the Iraqi army followed reluctantly, more out of fear than faith.
When I see these articles on FR I will copy and paste into an email and send it to a select mailing list (people who don't necessarily read FR consistently), with the source cited. I believe they get spread farther than I would know through the web of email forwarding.
It's my small contribution to spreading this suppressed information.
Damn! That is one powerful story! Great find and thanks for the post, Chieftain.
Send it to Fox News -- send it to Ollie North! Gotta be a way to get that story (and the many others like it out there for other Americans and our Allies to see!
Bumping, and passing along this
great story to a few FRiends.
Great post... thanks.
pardon the ping...thought this might be of interest