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Iraq
Arab Volunteers Get Comeuppance Feel Betrayed by Saddam’s Troops
2003-04-11
From Arab News. Their site is VERY slow – article edited for length.
Talal, who once dreamed of being a hero of the Arab resistance, had a rude awakening yesterday when he opened his eyes to the sight of the same US Marines he had been fighting for weeks watching over him. After a night under the stars on the front lawn of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, cordoned off by Marine tanks, the young Syrian lifted himself to rest on the palms of his hands, just returning their gaze. And that is all he could do after having regretfully handed back his gun on Wednesday at the sight of US troops in full battle gear rolling their mighty tanks and gigantic amphibious assault vehicles right into the heart of Baghdad.
Be glad you still have a head to lift.
The skinny, but resilient Syrian is one of thousands of idiots Arabs who volunteered to commit suicide fight in Iraqi ranks against the US-British military coalition to topple President Saddam Hussein. “We came here because of cheap rhetoric, and our own shots at the 72 virgins we all believed that we should rally to the defense of Baghdad, the fortress of the Arab and Muslim world standing strong against the American-Zionist imperialist expansion,” he said. Talal and the other idiots his former comrades-in-arms were still stunned by the way the Iraqi forces took their light arms from them yesterday, he said, and told them: “The war is over, just go home.”
”Your attack was quite pretty. It was, however, pointless.”
But today, the Arab fighters have no checkered headdresses, no rocket launchers in their hands, no fierce looks on their faces ,no brains in their empty little heads. All they have are the T-shirts they are wearing and impatience to find taxis to just go home.
Yes. Do that.
In the meantime, they are staying for security reasons on the lawns of the Palestine Hotel, among reporters carrying out live stand-ups. “The country is under no state security and we are afraid that people who hated the regime might attack us.”
Reasonable fear.
“We have already been robbed on the way from the south,” said another volunteer who did not wish to be identified. “Is this the way the Iraqis want to thank us? 
” An Iraqi driver working with foreign journalists who had overheard the conversation, broke in to ask the fighters: “And who told you to come here? You were only fighting for Saddam Hussein who brought the country to ruins and who let you down in the end. That’s all.”
That’s right, mister. I’m sure they’d prefer to thank you with a bludgeon. Just to express the depths of their gratitude, you understand.
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