Iraq rearming for war, say defectors

U.K. Guardian ^ | April 29, 2002 | Julian Borger

[codebreaker]

Full U.K. Monday Guardian Article up now.

Previously the executive summary was in the Ananova wire.

[codebreaker]

The mother of all cowardice!

[Senator Pardek]

The Mother of all being alive in 1991!

[anniegetyourgun]

Musta been a pretty lousy birthday party.

[zoso82t]

How exactly do 100,000 troops desert an army all at once? I think someone would notice them leaving.

[HAL9000]

BREAKING - Saddam Hussein says U.N. weapons inspectors can return to Iraq...

[codebreaker]

Happy 65th birthday Saddam!!

[shaggy eel]

,,, don't know whether I'd believe this. The other 75% of troops [supposedly loyal] would act on orders or of their own volition to turn deserters into moving targets in a regime such as Iraq's. Life has that much value.

[habs4ever]

Where are they, by chance? All at the Imman Hilton, trying to book rooms?

[shaggy eel]

BREAKING - Saddam Hussein says U.N. weapons inspectors can return to Iraq...

,,, so the weapons must have been taken thru to Iran, I guess.

[codebreaker]

Its in the second paragraph.

[rockfish59]

are you sure they weren't having dessert?

[codebreaker]

These are ones probably not getting kickbacks or employment from the Government..

[PeteF]

I have a hard time believing this...

[shaggy eel]

These are ones probably not getting kickbacks or employment from the Government..

,,, do you mean the stay at home moms?

[Dog Gone]

Its in the second paragraph.

No, it's not, unless you think 100,000 officers defected.

[uncbob]

I think all this drum beating against Saddam by Bush was to give the Iraqi military a time to reflect on the ass kicking they received the last time

There is NO WAY they want to go through that again especially since they are even in worse shape than in 91

I hope that that is what will happen it will save a hell of a lot of lives

[Dog Gone]

to the extent that well over a quarter of the 400,000-strong army are now missing from their posts.

Even if that were true, which I doubt, that's hardly the same thing as defecting.

This typifies the problem with posters who make up their own headlines in violation of the rules here.

[SCHROLL]

Negociations today broke off between Saddam Hussien and the Screen Actors Guild when Saddam refused to pay his troops union scale to star in the upcoming production of "Highway of Death II"