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| Iraqi Parliament Backs Move to Repel U.S. Strike |
| 2002-07-15 |
| Iraq's parliament voted unanimously Monday to back military preparations to repel any U.S. attack aimed at toppling President Saddam Hussein. Saddam's eldest son Uday, meanwhile, told the rubber-stamp National Assembly that the expected U.S. attack would be "more cruel" than the U.S.-led 1991 Gulf War that expelled Iraqi invasion troops from Kuwait. The parliamentary vote came just over a week after the failure of talks between the United Nations and Iraq about the return of U.N. weapons inspectors to Baghdad. If we do it right, "more cruel" will be an understatement. And Sammy, Uday, Qusay, and a considerable number of those "parliamentarians" will end up at the ends of ropes... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |