Abu Juwairiya
Junior Member
"Two days before Saddam Hussein’s regime crumbled in Baghdad....hundreds of Iraqi fighters opposed to Saddam Hussein have been airlifted into southern Iraq to battle the remnants of his military and, more importantly, to serve as the vanguard of a new national army'
in the words of an American newspaper.
The article added, 'These are Iraqi citizens who want to fight for a free Iraq, who will become basically the core of the new Iraqi army once Iraq is free,” said General Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The “Free Iraqi Forces,” dressed in American military desert fatigues and flown into a makeshift U.S. air base near Nasiriyah, were not your typical liberation fighters. For one thing, there were no reports that they actually did any fighting or that they were even capable of it.
Knight Ridder [not Knight Rider the TV Series] correspondent Sudarsan Raghavan described them as follows:
'They are as young as 18 and as old as 55. About half come from the United States, Britain, Iran, Norway, Canada, Jordan and a handful of other nations.
A few came with their children. Some have missing teeth and grizzled beards. Others have pot-shaped bellies and puff cigarettes as drill sergeants bark orders.' (Source: 'Weapons of Mass Deception, The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq' By Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, P 69-70, 2003)
in the words of an American newspaper.
The article added, 'These are Iraqi citizens who want to fight for a free Iraq, who will become basically the core of the new Iraqi army once Iraq is free,” said General Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The “Free Iraqi Forces,” dressed in American military desert fatigues and flown into a makeshift U.S. air base near Nasiriyah, were not your typical liberation fighters. For one thing, there were no reports that they actually did any fighting or that they were even capable of it.
Knight Ridder [not Knight Rider the TV Series] correspondent Sudarsan Raghavan described them as follows:
'They are as young as 18 and as old as 55. About half come from the United States, Britain, Iran, Norway, Canada, Jordan and a handful of other nations.
A few came with their children. Some have missing teeth and grizzled beards. Others have pot-shaped bellies and puff cigarettes as drill sergeants bark orders.' (Source: 'Weapons of Mass Deception, The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq' By Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, P 69-70, 2003)