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dmbfan
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 Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject: Georges Sadda |
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Georges Sada
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Georges Hormiz Sada
circa 1939 �
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Georges Sada
Place of birth Northern Iraq
Allegiance Flag of Iraq Iraq
Service/branch Iraqi Air Force
Years of service From (or before) 1959 to 1986
Rank Air Vice-Marshal [1]
Other work Iraqi National Security Advisor
General Georges Hormiz Sada (aka Gewargis or George Hormis; Arabic: كوركيس هرمز ساده, Syriac: ܓܘܪܓܝܣ ܗܪܡܙ ܣܕܐ; born 1939?) is an Iraqi of Assyrian descent, an author and retired general officer of the Iraqi Air Force.
Sada was born to a Assyrian family [1] in Northern Iraq, that belonged to the Chaldean Catholic Church before becoming a 'born-again' Christian. In 1959 he graduated from the Iraqi Air Academy, and over the following years served as an air force officer, including stints studying overseas in Britain, the USSR and the United States. Through 1964-1965 he was a student at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
He officially retired in 1986 as a 2 star officer, but was called back to active service for the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. According to his autobiography, he was briefly imprisoned in 1991 for refusing to execute POWs. He was told that Saddam didn't want him harmed but that he never wanted to see him again either.
After the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, Sada sided with the US-led government, and served as spokesman for the interim leader Iyad Allawi, and was appointed as National Security Advisor.
In August 2004 Sada announced that he would be signing a bill to introduce the death penalty for those "threatening national security".[2]
He serves as the Senior Warden of the St. Georges Anglican Church and as the President of the National Presbyterian Church, both in Baghdad. The former President of the Evangelical Churches of Iraq, Sada is also chairman of the Assembly of Iraqi Evangelical Presbyterian Churches. He has been active in advocating that Iraq was historically Christian in nature, and not Muslim.
On January 24th 2006, he announced the publication of a book he had written entitled Saddam's Secrets: How an Iraqi General Defied And Survived Saddam Hussein, with the tagline "An insider exposes plans to destroy Israel, hide WMDs and control the Arab world."[3] Sada, the former Air Vice-Marshal under Hussein, appeared the following day on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, where he discussed his book and reported that other pilots told him that Hussein had ordered them to fly portions of the WMD stockpiles to Damascus in Syria just prior to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.
Well, I want to make it clear, very clear to everybody in the world that we had the weapon of mass destruction in Iraq, and the regime used them against our Iraqi people...I know it because I have got the captains of the Iraqi airway that were my friends, and they told me these weapons of mass destruction had been moved to Syria. Iraq had some projects for nuclear weapons but it was destroyed in 1981. (When asked if there was any chance there were nuclear weapons or on their way to nuclear weapons when USA invaded, he said): Not in Iraq. [4]
His claims, though, tend to contradict the findings of the Duelfer Report, which "judged that it was unlikely that an official transfer of WMD material from Iraq to Syria took place," though analysts were unable to rule out the possibility.
Sada made a guest appearance on The Daily Show on March 21st, 2006 to promote Saddam's Secrets.
One-hundred percent of the profits from his book go to an organization that donates school bags and items to Middle Eastern children |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I gotta say, I believe everything hes saying. Its not like hes just trying to sell a book or anything. |
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dmbfan
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, kind of like CNN/MSNBC/BBC (and the other far left media outlets) don't have a political agenda......... 
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:56 am Post subject: |
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| dmbfan wrote: |
Yeah, kind of like CNN/MSNBC/BBC (and the other far left media outlets) don't have a political agenda.........
dmbfan |
I didn't sarcastically imply that he has a political agenda, I sarcastically implied that he was trying to sell a book even if that book's profits go elsewhere. Really he would need more evidence than " have got the captains of the Iraqi airway that were my friends, and they told me these weapons of mass destruction had been moved to Syria".
I don't watch those stations except for the BBC. I don't think that the bbc has a strong political agenda but I still don't believe everything I hear on the BBC.(far left! are you serious? whats your middle of the road station? indeed what is your plain lefty media outlet, does everything have to be far left?) Anyway I am in favour of being skeptical of pretty much everything you read or hear. Critical thinking is a good thing. I will await further evidence of Iraq's WMDs being in Syria and for now will stick with the most compelling evidence..that Iraq never had them in the first place. If good evidence to the contrary comes along, I am more than happy to change my mind.
What is with the far left thing anyway? The BBC is the number one station in Britain and is also very popular in Ireland. I fail to see how it is far left as no far left parties have been in power in Britain or Ireland for a very long time. You would think it would cater to its audience more. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:00 am Post subject: |
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| Much of Iraq's capabilities were gone militarily and everyone knew that. The idea of invading because there were WMD was really a big joke in my eyes, because I knew Iraq had very little if any WMD because the inspectors destroyed so much of it and there were sanctions, American and British planes flying over etc... Saddam's threat was blown out of proportion in 1991 and in 2003. It was to sell a war in both cases to the public. |
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