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To: Mark Felton
Liberals will try to bury this as fast as Saddam buried his own people.
8 posted on 12/06/2003 5:40:11 PM PST by armymarinemom (I Rocked the Cradle of Death from Above)
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To: armymarinemom
What we need, is to get that Iraqi general to come on FoxNews.

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"When I asked him whether the information in the document relating to the 45-minute issue was 100 per cent accurate, he responded with characteristic Iraqi enthusiasm: "It is 200 per cent accurate!" he exclaimed. "And forget 45 minutes. We could have fired them within half an hour."

The weapons themselves were finally deployed at his own unit towards the end of last year. "They arrived in boxes marked 'Made in Iraq' and looked like something you fired with a rocket-propelled grenade," Lt Col al-Dabbagh explained.

"They were either chemical or biological weapons; I don't know which, because only the Fedayeen and the Special Republican Guard were allowed to use them. All I know is that we were told that when we used these weapons we had to wear gas masks."

He believes that the only reason these weapons were not used during Operation Iraqi Freedom last spring is that the bulk of the Iraqi army refused to fight for Saddam.

"The West should thank God that the Iraqi army decided not to fight," he said. "If the army had fought for Saddam, and used these weapons, there would have been terrible consequences."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1035385/posts

The UK Telegraph article has much more detail, very interesting.

10 posted on 12/06/2003 5:45:09 PM PST by FairOpinion
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