Before Atheer Abdul-Karim, 25, joined his fellow Iraqis in singing a folk song on board a departing bus, he shouted out: "They paid us 17,000 (Iraqi dinars a month) to fight Americans. I would have killed Saddam for one dollar."
What an insightful account. I take back those unflattering things I said about AP embedded reporters. Would it be wrong to wish these released Iraqi POWs health, prosperity, and much happiness considering they served in the Republican Guard? I'm assuming if they're being released they are guilty of no real crime and were pressed into a service to Saddam they hated.
Let us hope these newly released will go back to their homes and tell the truth about how they wre handled by us....
Might do our cause a world of good!
Tia
Where does it say they served in the RG? Since it doesn't say, quite likely they were part of the regular Iraqi army, which either surrendered, like these fellows, or simply melted away and went literally went "over the hill.