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Iraqi Deserter Tells of Desperation
AP
| 3/31/03
| BRIAN MURPHY
Posted on 03/31/2003 11:49:06 AM PST by kattracks
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posted on
03/31/2003 11:49:06 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Poor guy...just wants freedom.
I was watching that missile strike in Kuwait City and I turned to my wife and said, Iraq could be like a large Kuwait if they were free. There was young people smiling and laughing even after a missile exploded... Iraqis at least deserve that kind of life..
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posted on
03/31/2003 11:56:34 AM PST
by
smith288
(Visit my gallery http://www.ejsmithweb.com/fr/hollywood/hollywood.php)
To: *war_list
To: kattracks
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posted on
03/31/2003 11:59:23 AM PST
by
Paul Ross
(From the State Looking Forward to Global Warming! Let's Drown France!)
To: kattracks
Apparently this guy missed Peter Arnett's broadcast. Poor guy gave up just when he was about to win.</sarcasm>
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posted on
03/31/2003 11:59:26 AM PST
by
Mr. Mulliner
("If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful." --C.S. Lewis)
To: kattracks
Poor bastard. Sherman was right. War is Hell.
Maybe now, he'll get a little peace.
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:01:25 PM PST
by
stboz
To: kattracks
V
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:01:39 PM PST
by
Beck_isright
(If CNN hires Peter Arnett would we really be suprised?)
To: kattracks
cry.....cry....
There's NO CRYING in Baseball!!
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:05:11 PM PST
by
peeve23
To: kattracks
Thanks for this article. BUMP.
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:05:38 PM PST
by
ncdrumr
To: kattracks
history will show president bush was right,and the war was the right thing to do.
To: peeve23
There's NO CRYING in Baseball!! True, but this is decidedly NOT baseball we're playing.
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:13:48 PM PST
by
AFreeBird
(God Bless, God Speed and safe return of our troops, and may God's love be with the fallen and family)
To: Mr. Mulliner
I HATE it when that happens.
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:14:38 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: ncdrumr
Now, now, not so fast!!! According to Saggy Boobs Sarandon, these little brown-skinned Iraquis don't have the same dreams and aspirations that Americans do--they might not be able to handle the complexities of democracy and capitalism. And who are we to say they'd be better off in a democracy?
(In other words, the slaves are better off kept on the plantation.....) Let us find a way to resist fundamentalism that leads to violence -- fundamentalism of all kinds, in al Qaeda and within our government. And what is our fundamentalism?
Cloaked in patriotism and out doctrine of spreading democracy throughout the world, our fundamentalism is business, the unfettered spread of our economic interests throughout the globe. Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life.
-- Actress Susan Sarandon at an anti-Iraq war protest in Washington, DC on October 26
To: kattracks
Liberated Iraqi BUMP!
I was just pointing out to my sister the difference between the _true_ joy of the freed Iraqis and the manic look of the 'kill America' chanting Iraqis still under Saddam's regime's thumb.
I think it's just a matter of time before the backlash against the regime begins!
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:17:22 PM PST
by
UncleHambone
(Smart bombs kill stupid people too)
To: AFreeBird
Tom Hanks..."League of their Own"
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:17:56 PM PST
by
peeve23
To: kattracks
"... We just want an end to all this."Depite the propoganda, this must be the prevailing attitude of the Iraqi people.
To: kattracks
Bump
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:23:19 PM PST
by
EdReform
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To: smith288
Poor guy...just wants freedom. The only news he got was the rhetoric his commander fed him and yet he still saw through it. What's wrong with the liberals in this country?
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:24:23 PM PST
by
biblewonk
(Spose to be a Chrissssstian)
To: RooRoobird14
I'm SURE the Iraqis DON'T have the same dreams and aspirations as an American does. Under sodom insane, did they even KNOW how to hold to dreams and aspirations??? Or DARE to dream?
And I'm SURE they WON'T know how to handle the 'complexities of democracy/capitalism'. But again, that's something they really couldn't even dream of under this butcher of bagdad. And I'm also SURE there are those who are able to step up and help them get 'situated'. From all I've read, there are MANY Iraqis in the USA who long for their homeland and have TASTED freedom, dreams, democracy, and capitalism.
To: peeve23
Yea, I know what movie it was from. Great line too, but we ain't playing baseball, and given the absolute ass kicking we've been giving the enemy and the very real threat to ordinary Iraqi soldiers from SoDamnInsane's loyalist; I don't begrudge the poor guy for breaking down.
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posted on
03/31/2003 12:28:02 PM PST
by
AFreeBird
(God Bless, God Speed and safe return of our troops, and may God's love be with the fallen and family)
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