[Ligeia]

Before Atheer Abdul-Karim, 25, joined his fellow Iraqis in singing a folk song on board a departing bus, he shouted out: "They paid us 17,000 (Iraqi dinars a month) to fight Americans. I would have killed Saddam for one dollar."

What an insightful account. I take back those unflattering things I said about AP embedded reporters. Would it be wrong to wish these released Iraqi POWs health, prosperity, and much happiness considering they served in the Republican Guard? I'm assuming if they're being released they are guilty of no real crime and were pressed into a service to Saddam they hated.

[solzhenitsyn]

Thank, kattracks, I loved this story. Wish we could have at least given the barefoot fellows shoes, but I know they mainly just wanted to get home and find out about their families.

I'm so glad my country took the lead in liberating Iraq! It is an especially wonderful time to be an American.

[El Gato]

Chanting "Saddam no, Bush yes," some 200 Iraqi prisoners

Hmm, need to put these fellows in contact with the Hollywierdos and the Reds from the ANSWER coalition.

"They paid us 17,000 (Iraqi dinars a month) to fight Americans. I would have killed Saddam for one dollar."

It would probably have been a raise anyway. ;-) .

[JoeSchem]

Before Atheer Abdul-Karim, 25, joined his fellow Iraqis in singing a folk song on board a departing bus, he shouted out: "They paid us 17,000 (Iraqi dinars a month) to fight Americans. I would have killed Saddam for one dollar."

What's your rate for North Korean dictators?

[DCPatriot]

That about sums it up, doesn't it?

It would have been nice if every Iraqi POW could have received a bit of the Multi-Million dollar booty taken by our military.

For example, a thousand dollars American would equate to a nice tidy bonus for them to transfer into civilian life.

Gosh, am I being a Socialist for suggesting something like that? ;^)

[Flyer]

Chanting "Saddam no, Bush yes,"

[McGavin999]

Too bad we couldn't give each of them a US dollar. They could have lived for a week on that, and most of them could have bought transportation home.

[the Deejay]

"When we heard Americans entered Iraq, we knew it was the end of Saddam," said Falih Rahim, 35, from Baghdad. "

Apparently, he wasn't listening to Baghdad Bob's reports on tv.

[Polybius]

One smiling POW, Mahdi Saleh, told The Associated Press: "My mother will die when she sees me."

CNN Headline News: "In our top story tonight..... CNN has just learned from the Associated Press that the U.S. Army has taken steps to ensure the death of the mother of an Iraqi POW."