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Iraqi Troops Reporting Deserting
Newsmax.com ^
| March 17, 2003
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 03/17/2003 7:47:07 PM PST by Lady In Blue
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To: Lady In Blue
Hey, would the last one out, please get the lights and off the big guy?
To: Lady In Blue
Every deserter we pick up is one less armed Iraqi soldier we have to deal with. Personally I would be elated if we did not have to drop a single bomb or fire a shot but unfortunately there will be some who just inist on being killed.
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posted on
03/17/2003 7:50:17 PM PST
by
harpseal
(Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
To: Lady In Blue
Does this article say where they went?
To: Lady In Blue
I soooooo hope this is true GO GEORGE GO USA
To: gov_bean_ counter
My husband is laughing and saying, "Surrender now, and avoid the rush."
To: Lady In Blue
Memo to Saddam:
The jig is up. Say your prayers.
To: Lady In Blue
Great news! Maybe we can train these guys to do the dangerous "urban warfare" assuming, of course, that there are people who insist on fighting.
To: Lady In Blue
aaaaa statistics :)).
in sun office
one sais: 15% have deserted.
the other: how much is that?
well aaa 15% out of iraqi army of 200000 is 30000.
the other: uuuuu wow ...
BY THE WAY THE ORIGINAL STORY SAIS THAT IN THE NORTHERN PART OF IRAQ US UNITS ARE REPORTING THAT ABOUT 15% OF SOLDIERS THERE!! HAVE DESERTED.
That does not mean 15% in whole Iraq.
But I am sure that by the end of the week there will be 100000 deserters. But I hate statistics especially writen by a journalists.
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posted on
03/17/2003 7:55:43 PM PST
by
bobi
(events before the event are more important than the event)
To: Lady In Blue
Are the French advising the Iraqi military too?
To: Lady In Blue
Video ! Pictures ! FORCE the media to play this up even if they hate doing it !
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posted on
03/17/2003 7:56:37 PM PST
by
RS
To: Lady In Blue
I hope these guys don't get near our troups. trojan horse shit.
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posted on
03/17/2003 7:58:25 PM PST
by
TBall
To: nickcarraway
Ping!
To: Lady In Blue
Send all the Iraqi POWs to France.
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posted on
03/17/2003 7:59:02 PM PST
by
Consort
To: Lady In Blue
... And treat them well, we need more people in that area with a greater respect for themselves and their country rather then the mindless ones who follow the insane leaders !
Let them go home with stories of the generously way they were treated by the Americans.
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posted on
03/17/2003 8:01:12 PM PST
by
RS
To: Lady In Blue
LOL...... Yep and word is they had to tell them to go back and come back in 48 hours.......
'30,000 IRAQI SOLDIERS DESERT'
Mar 17 2003
|
Scared Iraqi conscripts return home to avoid battle, say Allied commanders |
From Bob Roberts At The US HQ, Camp As-Saylihah, Qatar |
|
UP TO 30,000 Iraqi conscripts have fled to escape an invasion, allied commanders claimed last night. One source said of the deserters - around 15per cent of the Iraqi army: "They have upped and left, they are going home to mum." |
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posted on
03/17/2003 8:04:50 PM PST
by
deport
(The Truth doesn't need a gift to be known.....)
To: Consort
They'd just let them go and probably make them mayor.
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posted on
03/17/2003 8:06:14 PM PST
by
Inkie
To: Lady In Blue
15 percent of Saddam's army have deserted How many of them want to fight with us? If we play this right, instead of POW's they could be part of the coalition of the willing.
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posted on
03/17/2003 8:06:46 PM PST
by
Reeses
To: TBall
The deserters must be segregated as though they carry an infectious disease.
To: try phecta tom
"I soooooo hope this is true GO GEORGE GO USA." The chances of this being true are far greater than it not being true.
They surrenderred in Desert Storm by the tens of thousands, but those were the Iraqi soldiers supposedly "disposable" by the Iraqi elite.
The Republican (I hate they chose that name) Guard are the ones we will need to be watching. They have "political officers" who stand in the ranks waiting to shoot to kill anyone even looking like they want to desert.
Pray.
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posted on
03/17/2003 8:09:51 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(HOLLYWOOD:Ask not what U can do for your country, ask what U can do for Iraq!)
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