Iraq warns U.S. attack would be like Vietnam

AFP - Reuters ^ | Monday March 4, 5:39 PM | Reuters

[vannrox]

Monday March 4, 5:39 PM

Iraq warns U.S. attack would be like Vietnam

PARIS (Reuters) - The United States would face Vietnam-style defeat if it attacked Iraq, the country's deputy prime minister said in an interview to be published on Monday.


With Washington refusing to rule out an invasion of Iraq as part of its "war on terror", Tareq Aziz warned President George Bush to expect high casualties if he orders his forces in.


"If Bush junior invades Iraq, he will fail because the Iraqi people will fight to the end. For the Americans, it won't be a military parade," Aziz told the French daily, Le Figaro.


He likened Iraq to Vietnam when it expelled U.S. forces more than a quarter century ago.


"It was not the jungle that allowed the Vietnamese to win but determination. The Iraqis will fight in every street and every house," he said.


On Thursday Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri is due to meet U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who is hoping to bring about the return of weapons inspectors to Iraq.


Confronted with growing U.S. threats, Iraq has offered to have a dialogue "without preconditions" with the United Nations.


Arms inspectors left Iraq in 1998 and have not been allowed to return. They sought to verify Iraq has no more nuclear, biological, chemical or long-range missile programmes

[Calvin Locke]

Tareq Aziz is trying to get the Jane Fonda's of the Democratic Party, the illiberal news media, and
wet-behind-the-ears students to pressure Congress to pressure Bush/Cheney/Rummy.

Of course, you guys knew this.

By the way, did Tariq Aziz spend any time in Iraq during the Gulf War, or did he hang out at the UN in Geneva?

[in the Arena]

"He likened Iraq to Vietnam when it expelled U.S. forces more than a quarter century ago. "

Ha ha ha ha !!! Funny stuff. Who writes their material ?

[Southern Federalist]

the Iraqi people will fight to the end

Ah, but who says they will be fighting us? I expect they will fight to the end -- until every last Baathist, every last secret police spy, every last torturer, is hanging from a streetlight. Once they believe that this time we're serious.

[Don Myers]

dumb

[fire_eye]

With Washington refusing to rule out an invasion of Iraq as part of its "war on terror", Tareq Aziz warned President George Bush to expect high casualties if he orders his forces in.

Not to worry, Tareq baby. We will never invade Iraq again. Iraq will simply cease to exist before we land forces there.

[clintonh8r]

I'm not a general, but I was one of those lieutenants. I'm tired of being told we lost when in fact we won a decisive military victory, even with one hand behind our backs and tactical decisions being made in the Oval Office and at State. The politicians and diplomats have successfully shifted their defeat onto the military. Many of us will never forget or forgive.

Semper fi!