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Captured Iraqi Colonel asks "How long have they been lying like this?
Sky News ^
| Colin Brazier
Posted on 04/08/2003 8:03:52 PM PDT by Gorilla44
But things are changing and, as the days pass, minds are changing too.
A captured Iraqi colonel being held in one of the hangars listened in astonishment as his information minister praised Republican Guard soldiers for recapturing the airport.
He looked at his captors and, as he realised that what he had heard was palpably untrue, his eye filled with tears. Turning to a translator, he asked: "How long have they been lying like this?"
(Excerpt) Read more at thisislondon.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bia; embeddedreport; enemypropaganda; fallofbaghdad; iraqiofficers; republicanguard; viceisclosing
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The article is mostly about Saddam's luxurious palaces, so I just excerpted the more interesting last couple paragraphs.
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posted on
04/08/2003 8:03:52 PM PDT
by
Gorilla44
To: Gorilla44
Bump.
To: Gorilla44
Turning to a translator, he asked: "How long have they been lying like this?" Since about the 8th Century AD. But it's only when their lips move. Why?
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posted on
04/08/2003 8:05:29 PM PDT
by
Anamensis
To: Gorilla44
HOW LONG?...INDEED!
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posted on
04/08/2003 8:06:28 PM PDT
by
JOE6PAK
(24 hours in a day ... 24 beers in a case ... coincidence?)
To: Gorilla44
"... Turning to a translator, he asked: "How long have they been lying like this?" Your whole damned military career, schmuck.
To: Gorilla44
Interesting statement. What did he think they were saying? What did he think about what they were doing, that the world didn't care, didn't know, or accepted what the regime was doing?
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posted on
04/08/2003 8:07:56 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
To: Gorilla44
My goodness, this is pathetic.
To: Anamensis
"Since about the 8th Century AD. But it's only when their lips move. Why?"
. . .LOL. . .LOL. . .and more. . .
. . .that's it, I swear, for tonight.
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posted on
04/08/2003 8:08:38 PM PDT
by
cricket
To: Anamensis
Damn...almost enough to make you feel sorry for these guys. Half of them probably have their wife and kids held hostage by fayadeen somewhere, told they will be executed if they don't fight. Certainly the case for conscripts, maybe some republican guard as well seeing as how they all seemed to cut tail and run.
Only the martyr brigade from Eygpt, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, etc. actually seem to want to fight along with fayadeen.
But let the martyrs come and run their technicals straight at our tanks and bradleys...as the general, USMC, said, "we'll kill em like the fools they are" :)
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posted on
04/08/2003 8:09:02 PM PDT
by
Nagilum
To: JOE6PAK
INDEED!
this word is INDEED the preferred word of many Foxnews anchors!LOL
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posted on
04/08/2003 8:09:45 PM PDT
by
tutstar
To: Gorilla44
Maybe a better question is: When was the last time they told the truth? If ever.
To: Gorilla44
Oh, that's ok Colonel, the Democrats pull the same S*it in our country.
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posted on
04/08/2003 8:10:31 PM PDT
by
Mark
(Treason doeth never prosper, for if it prosper, NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON.)
To: Gorilla44
I think he got all his info from DU. No wonder he was surprised.
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posted on
04/08/2003 8:11:21 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(Lara Logan Doesn't Hold A Candle Next To BellyGirl :))
To: Anamensis
Since about the 8th Century AD. But it's only when their lips move. Why?I think it was about 2000 years early than that, i.e., sometime around when Abraham begat Ishmael. (Did I say that out loud?)
To: Gorilla44
"How long have they been lying like this?"Freepers, don't you just dream of the day your liberal friends wake up and ask the same question ?
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posted on
04/08/2003 8:14:13 PM PDT
by
VRWC_minion
(Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
To: Gorilla44
Half of them probably have their wife and kids held hostage by fayadeen somewhere...That explains it all.
To: VRWC_minion
Freepers, don't you just dream of the day your liberal friends wake up and ask the same question ?
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posted on
04/08/2003 8:15:01 PM PDT
by
VRWC_minion
(Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
To: delacoert
Since Mohammed picked Allah out of a line-up of the god-of-the-month club.
To: Nagilum
"Only the martyr brigade from Eygpt, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, etc. actually seem to want to fight along with fayadeen."I'd be willing to bet most of the fayadeen, or what ever the hell you call them, are comprimised mostly of the aforementioned.
To: Gorilla44
It's wonderful that the colonel finally saw the truth.
Kitsch and gaudy, it was a monument to poor taste and brash self-promotion.
It the photos I've seen of Saddam's palaces, that was what I was thinking. With all that money, this was his idea of class?!
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posted on
04/08/2003 8:23:06 PM PDT
by
xJones
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