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To: SARMAN who wrote (195884)	8/8/2006 2:10:34 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Oh pleeeeaase. What army, the one that surrendered? The one he was paying because he couldn't figure out how to develop a diverse economy that wouldn't threaten his powerbase. I was located at a base near Baghdad which was a former Ba'th Party "convention community". Huge man-made lakes and palaces and fancy (for Iraq) houses and palaces on their shores, and planted with the best date palms in the middle east. I was told by an Iraqi that Saddam employed 6,000 Iraqis maintaining the grounds and constructing new buildings. And they would not oppose him, lest they find themselves out of work and their families going hungry. Saddam controlled EVERYTHING in Iraq. If you didn't subjugate yourself to him and his minions, you didn't work.. And if you didn't work, you didn't eat. Hawk

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