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| Iraq |
| Insider recalls life with Saddam |
| 2007-06-25 |
| Gen. Georges Sada used to be vice-marshal of Saddam Hussein's air force and a trusted adviser to the Iraqi dictator. Eighteen times he gave the executed dictator advice Saddam didn't want to hear, such as telling him in the 1991 Gulf War the coalition forces could not be beaten, and in 2003 the U.S., Britain and allies would invade Iraq. Now, Sada, author of the bestselling book Saddam's Secrets: An Insider Exposes Plans to Destroy Israel, Hide WMDs and Control the Arab World (Integrity Books), travels the world explaining why the U.S. had to liberate Iraq and depose of Saddam, with the cost being worth it. He also works assiduously helping to bring both humanitarian relief to Iraq and fighting for constitutional guarantees of religious freedom in his homeland. This weekend, as a guest of Phil Nordin's Jubilee Christian Centre, Sada is in Calgary telling the spellbinding story of his military life and talking about the growing success of America's liberation and rebuilding of Iraq. It's a success, he contends, the Liberal-Left news media tries to disavow and distort. The Iraqi state of Kurdistan, for instance, has now guaranteed freedom of religion, and 1,600 Muslims have already converted to Christianity. The government of Iraq itself hasn't yet gone that far, but Sada is convinced it is moving in the right direction. Indicatively, Sada's American host, Pastor Terry Law, of the Tulsa-based humanitarian organization World Compassion, has had 100,000 Bibles printed in Arabic and is distributing them far and wide in Iraq and Afghanistan, a situation unthinkable until the American-led liberation of the two nations. Sada, a charming and articulate man, noted Saddam's initial attempt to get nuclear weapons was thwarted when the Israeli air force destroyed his reactor in 1981. He contends Saddam was just one year away from being given nuclear weapons by Communist China when American forces invaded, and had huge stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction that were quickly shipped to Syria as the invasion became imminent. "A dam broke in Syria and it asked Saddam and other leaders for humanitarian assistance. Instead of getting needed clothing and food supplies, Saddam had two jumbo jets loaded with canisters of chemical and biological weapons and those aircraft made 56 flights to move the stockpiles to Syria." The military expert also tells his audiences Saddam once held up a small bottle and boasted that if the contents were unleashed on Washington -- which he intended to see they were -- 100,000 people would die. He warns if the U.S. pulls out of Iraq now, it will leave a void that will allow nations such as Iran and Syria to sweep towards Jerusalem, and backed by terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, destroy the Jewish state. This, he contends, has been part of a grand scheme of the Arab world for several decades, and now with Iran almost at the point of acquiring nuclear weapons, the scenario becomes terrifying. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 vice-marshal of Saddam Hussein's air force Hope he is better at writing than at his old job.. cause his pilots left a lot to be desired... 'The F-16s passed me at Osirak' As we were parking and shutting down, I opened the side window and heard the distinct sound of anti-aircraft fire. I casually mentioned to the trainee pilot and the navigator that it sounded like an air raid was on near Baghdad. Would you believe it, in 20 seconds flat I was alone in the cockpit. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-06-25 12:46 |
| #4 I'd bet you anything that these were forced muslim converts from Christian families that were simply converting back. Not necessarily. And not the most important. The important is that the Kurds have datred to shelve one of the more important tenets of Islam. The hope is that they grow more and more convinced that Islam is not a religion but a tool for Arab dominsation and end rejecting it altogether and go much farther than Mustapha Kemal ever wdared to go. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-06-25 08:47 |
| #3 Sada's story may be partly true, or mostly true, or totally false. Mainly he's trying to sell books. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-06-25 08:04 |
| #2 The Iraqi state of Kurdistan, for instance, has now guaranteed freedom of religion, and 1,600 Muslims have already converted to Christianity. I'd bet you anything that these were forced muslim converts from Christian families that were simply converting back. The Kurds are going to end up with their own country me thinks. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-06-25 07:14 |
| #1 ...Saddam once held up a small bottle and boasted that if the contents were unleashed on Washington -- which he intended to see they were -- 100,000 people would die. That should give Washington enough pause for concern to take time from campaigns and trying to ram immigration down American's throats. He warns if the U.S. pulls out of Iraq now, it will leave a void that will allow nations such as Iran and Syria to sweep towards Jerusalem, and backed by terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, destroy the Jewish state. This, he contends, has been part of a grand scheme of the Arab world for several decades, and now with Iran almost at the point of acquiring nuclear weapons, the scenario becomes terrifying. Hey, MSM and other misguided liberals, are you paying attention? WMDs didn't exist? They went somewhere now didn't they? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-06-25 06:56 |