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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: zonder who wrote (5702)3/31/2003 9:07:32 AM
From: E. T.  Respond to of 21614
 
"So you agree that it is not unusual in wartime for the immediate sentence of defection (or even refusing to fight) to be death?"

I agree completely! That might partly explain the Iraqi peoples reluctance to embrace the invading forces.

What is unusual is the Iraqi military leadership's threat to the families of soldiers if they refuse to fight or if they desert.