Posted on 03/08/2003 10:56:22 PM PST by MattAMiller
TERRIFIED Iraqi soldiers have crossed the Kuwait border and tried to surrender to British forces - because they thought the war had already started.
The motley band of a dozen troops waved the white flag as British paratroopers tested their weapons during a routine exercise.
The stunned Paras from 16 Air Assault Brigade were forced to tell the Iraqis they were not firing at them, and ordered them back to their home country telling them it was too early to surrender.
The drama unfolded last Monday as the Para batallion tested mortars and artillery weapons to make sure they were working properly.
The Iraqis found a way across the fortified border, which is sealed off with barbed-wire fencing, watchtowers and huge trenches.
A British Army source in Kuwait contacted me to explain how the extraordinary surrender bid unfolded. The source said: "The British guys on the front-line could not believe what was happening. They were on pre-war exercises when all of a sudden these Iraqis turned up out of nowhere, with their hands in the air, saying they wanted to surrender.
"They had heard firing and thought it was the start of the war.
"The Paras are a tough, battle-hardened lot but were moved by the plight of the Iraqis. There was nothing they could do other than send them back.
"They were a motley bunch and you could barely describe them as soldiers - they were poorly equipped and didn't even have proper boots. Their physical condition was dreadful and they had obviously not had a square meal for ages. No one has ever known a group of so-called soldiers surrender before a shot has been fired in anger."
Last night the Ministry of Defence officially denied the incident had taken place, but the story was corroborated by an intelligence source.
Meanwhile Saddam Hussein has ordered thousands of troops back to Baghdad as he turns the city into a fortress.
It is believed that two rings of steel are being established around Baghdad. The outer one consists of regular Iraqi army soldiers and the inner one is made up of Republican Guard fighters - thought to be the only troops that will put up fierce resistance.
Still, I think these guys are being taken care of and are being kept in sight to make sure they aren't harmed while they wait for the opening bell. Like I said, I'm sure they will find food and water each day when they wake up and will be located under the watchful eye of the Brits.
You hurt my stomach with that one!!
But I have managed to get up off the floor and back to the keyboard.
I hope so.
This news is tantamount to a wholesale Iraqi surrender.
It not only reaffirms the contentions of the Bush Administration of the of the barbarous inhumane treatment by Saddamn to his own people and military; but it bears witness to the entire world of the following:
#1: The U.N., France, Germany, Belgium, and all the "nay-sayers" to a liberation of the Iraqi people are bogus - LIES!
#2: It speaks of broad and savage crimes on humanity by Saddamn far deeper than even the Bush Administration have proposed and alledged.
#3: It provides a glimmer of the humiliation to all those in the Dimratic Party, Hollywood, and the (soon to be defunct (un)United Nations who have so vehemently and unceascingly sought to demonize George W. Bush and Tony Blair for risking their entire political fortunes on the beliefs that liberating the Iraqi people from this tyranny far outweighed the risk of ridicule from the reprobat minds of thos opposed to it (the liberation).
So please join us in a resounding Battle Cry of Liberation and focus on the prizes of freedom for the Iraqi people and a milestone in the battle against terrorism in this otherwise bleak and hopeless world.
And a prayer of thankfulness to Almighty God that there were those among us with enough unwavering courage to set out on such endeavors in the face of seemingly overwhelming opposition in the first place.
And to those in director chairs in Hollywood and those sitting in positions of dispicable authority in the Dimratic Party and high places in Paris, Berlin, Brussells and facists and socialists everywhere I thank you for revealing to the world your dreams and schemes and bringing them to the light of day - sounding the bells of alarm in the hearts of those who understand that "Freedom is Not Free!"
That is all.
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors; they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." Samuel Adams
The "Anti - - Anti-war" Wave. What Should It Be? What Should It Look Like?
Those issues can be taken care of.
I was telling someone this morning that as angry and indignant and fixated as I have felt on this upcoming war, I was very pleasantly surprised to feel that my heart of flesh [Ezekiel 11:19, 36:26] had indeed not turned into stone, and leaped to the fore for these poor lost souls.
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