To a Briton these people are recognisable as being the "Dad's Army" (Home Guard) of Iraq - a token force of resistance, more for show than for actual use. A closer historical parallel is the Volksturm, which was the last line of defence for Nazi Germany too - and got crushed.
The whole rabbits thing is odd. I guess that they are using Monty Python and the Holy Grail as a training video.
![](http://www.yammer.co.uk/armchaircritic/cinema/grail.jpg)
"Next week, we will learn how to say 'Ni!'"
Regards, Ivan
1 posted on
02/04/2003 3:22:03 PM PST by
MadIvan
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2 posted on
02/04/2003 3:22:27 PM PST by
MadIvan
To: MadIvan
Actually, I'd give the Volkssturm a plus over these guys...we aren't about to do anything near what the Russians pulled in Germany in 1945..That motivated the Volkssturm in SPADES. At least in the east..
3 posted on
02/04/2003 3:26:31 PM PST by
Braak
(Democrats...always on the wrong side of history...since 1945.)
To: MadIvan
As if any of these people have a choice in participating in these "exercises"...
What I would love to know is-are we having any success in helping stage a coup or otherwise have Saddam and sons assasinated? Some of the insiders must be feeling a bit nervous at this point. Saddam is getting old and feeble minded and I doubt any would take a bullet for Uday.
4 posted on
02/04/2003 3:27:12 PM PST by
riri
To: MadIvan
5 posted on
02/04/2003 3:27:24 PM PST by
montag813
To: MadIvan
who marched in khakis with platform shoes, ANOTHER excellent reason to invade Iraq. To liberate these women from having to endure such serious crimes of fashion! ;-)
6 posted on
02/04/2003 3:27:50 PM PST by
Happygal
To: MadIvan
"When the Americans come, we will eat them like rabbits,..
That's neither Hare nor there.
7 posted on
02/04/2003 3:28:19 PM PST by
duckman
(all ducked up with no place to go..)
To: MadIvan
One unit was led by a tiny woman in combat gear wielding a sword.
This is sort of touching, in a perverse sort of way.
I hope our warlords in the Pentegon can develop a way to destroy Iraq's political and military elites without hurting these little ones, these toy soldiers with their pointy swords and their pictures of a leering madman pinned to their shirts.
8 posted on
02/04/2003 3:29:41 PM PST by
Asclepius
(hater of poets)
To: MadIvan
They have also learnt how to skin and disembowel a rabbit. It was a skill, one woman said, that would come in handy if she ran into any American soldiers. She'd better be careful about messing with rabbits.
To: MadIvan
When the Americans come, we will eat them like rabbits...I don't know, but I think I'm more weirded-out than intimidated...
To: MadIvan
When the Americans come, we will eat them like rabbits, said Muntaha abdel abi-Habi, 45, a Ministry of Justice clerk who has undergone two eight-week military training sessions. ![](http://www.martialinfo.com/photos/killer_rabbit.jpg)
To: MadIvan
Eat us like rabbits? Hmmm. That's weird. Maybe it lost something in the translation.
LOL
13 posted on
02/04/2003 3:32:32 PM PST by
Morrigan
To: MadIvan
I was thinking more along these lines for a movie inspiration about rabbits.
![](http://www.serkis.com/images/9987.jpg)
Besides, that rabbit from
Grail was
dynamite!
To: MadIvan
When the Americans come, we will eat them like rabbits, As bluster goes, that's not too bad. She certainly gets points for creativity. She might, though, just be out of touch. Maybe she thinks Jimmy Carter is still president.
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15 posted on
02/04/2003 3:36:09 PM PST by
Nick Danger
(Heave la France)
To: MadIvan
"When the Americans come, we will eat them like rabbits"
Speaking of rabbits, they holding Elmer Fudd?.....Silly Iwackee's hehehehehe.
To: MadIvan
![](http://www.celebritypads.com/images/gc75EFudd.jpg)
Be vewwy, vewwy, quiet. I'm hunting wabbit. Scwewy Amewicans!
To: MadIvan
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Iraqis will eat us like rabbits, and I just heard that the French promised to eat us like snails. The North Koreans promised to eat us like grass.
I'm feeling like a buffet restaurant.
18 posted on
02/04/2003 3:41:06 PM PST by
Dog Gone
To: MadIvan
![](http://www.g2mil.com/ruinslowres.jpg)
This is what happened to the Iraqis who DIDN'T surrender to journalists and drones.
20 posted on
02/04/2003 3:44:25 PM PST by
wimpycat
(US: Masters of our Domain...France: Morally bankrupt "old Europe")
To: MadIvan
When the Americans come, we will eat them like rabbits, Who the hell do they think we are ???? a bunch of Jimmuh Carters ???
22 posted on
02/04/2003 3:45:10 PM PST by
Centurion2000
(The question is not whether you're paranoid, but whether you're paranoid enough.)
To: MadIvan
When the Americans come, we will eat them like rabbits, said Muntaha abdel abi-Habi, 45, a Ministry of Justice clerk who has undergone two eight-week military training sessions.What are they going to do, nibble our bums?
To: MadIvan
Fred Karno's army.
26 posted on
02/04/2003 3:47:42 PM PST by
tet68
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