[SolidSupplySide]

I hope the UK soldiers save the Iraqi civilians from Saddam's butchers.

[MEG33]

There will be a bloodbath ,I fear, for the rebels.

[jiggyboy]

Hey Mister Fedayeen, I wanna ax you something...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This is getting serious!

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

[SolidSupplySide]

Meanwhile, Rumsfeld indicates that the coalition is not strong enough to support the uprising.

[Atlas Sneezed]

"CIVILIANS have fought with axes and knives against Saddam Hussein's heavily-armed militiamen during an uprising in Basra."

"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt."

-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize winner and author of The Gulag Archipelago, who spent 11 years in Soviet concentration camps.

The parallel gives me chills.

[Atlas Sneezed]

...and I thought the gun-control nuts in the US were claiming that Iraq was an example of a society in which the citizens all have guns.

[philetus]

Shows just how bad it is under Saddas if the citizens are willing to take on mortars and Kali's with knives and ax's.

[section9]

I understand that the Lads go in at first light.

Godspeed to them, then.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[savedbygrace]

Freeeeeeedooooooooommmmm!!!

[Eternal_Bear]

Axes? Shades of Sgt Legros at Hougemont!