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Just broke on Fox News....Iraqi Foreign Minister:" Bush has turned America into a joke...they are the world's #1 War Monger"..."Saddam not going any where"

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Kurdish leader predicted Friday the quick collapse of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's government if war comes. He said 70,000 Kurds were prepared to fight alongside U.S. troops. Barhim Salih, prime minister of the Kurdistan regional government, said the Iraqi army and even some of Saddam's Republican Guard would quit in what he predicted would be a short war. Salih told reporters at the Council on Foreign Relations, a private research group, that Saddam had booby-trapped Iraqi oil fields in Kirkuk and probably elsewhere and would have them blown up as he sought refuge outside the country....

00:47 2003-03-06 Thousands of Russians volunteer to defend Iraq Around ten thousand Russian citizens have applied for entry visas into Iraq to defend this country against the planned aggression by the warmongering USA and UK, according to the Iraqi Embassy in Moscow. Iraqi Ambassador to Moscow, Abbas Khalaf, declared last week that the Embassy had received around 3,500 requests, a number which has multiplied in the last few days, according to sources in the same Embassy. The requests come from young males, some with combat experience, who describe themselves as “volunteers” who are willing to defend Iraq against the illegal...

Evil Ravens-Sorties Baghdad, Mar. 9, Ina The evil warplanes of the U.S. and Britain launched on Friday and Saturday 225 armed sorties targeting civil and service facilities, aided by AWACS and e-2c planes from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. a spokesman for the air defence command told Ina that the enemy ravens flew over civil targets and areas in the southern provinces. This brought the total figure of armed sorties carried out by the Anglo-U.S. evil warplanes coming from bases in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and turkey over the period dec. 17, 1998-mar.8, 2003 to 50,950, the spokesman said.

<p>Watching "Gods and Generals" over the weekend made me wonder about our enduring effort to elevate man's inhumanity to man to something virtuous.</p> <p>This ponderous Civil War epic is hagiography disguised as history - unabashedly rev erential toward its subjects and permeated by an unmistakable Southern bias.</p>

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