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Don't ask me, I thought Lil George launched his invasion against Iraq to defeat the Iraqi army. Now, it appears that the U.S. has become paymaster for the Iraqi army:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030623/1/3c12o.html
Tuesday June 24, 12:59 AM
US yields on paying Saddam's soldiers as Iraq pipelines face new sabotage
The US-led coalition announced that it would pay the salaries of as many as 250,000 former soldiers of Saddam Hussein as an ultimatum from demobilized troops prompted a policy U-turn amid growing post-war violence.
Oil ministry officials meanwhile said a fuel pipeline near the Syrian border had been sabotaged in the third attack on Iraq's exposed energy infrastructure in barely 10 days, highlighting the threat to future export revenues on which the coalition is counting to fund post-war reconstruction.
US and British officials had insisted that Iraqi soldiers would receive just a single month's severance payment after the occupation administration dissolved all Saddam's myriad security forces last month.
But faced with a deadline from former soldiers in the capital to pay up or faced armed attack, the coalition announced it would pay former enlisted men their salaries provided they renounced allegiance to Saddam's Baath party.
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Oh yeah, this will work!
"Where's my money?"
"Renounce your allegiance."
"Okay, I'm very sorry I shot at you guys last month. I won't do it again in the name of Saddam's Baath party."
"All right then. See you next month."
"Yeah, I'll be sorry then, too. Can I just retroactively renounce my allegiance in advance? It really holds up the line."
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