{"id":444,"date":"2003-04-14T09:32:59","date_gmt":"2003-04-14T14:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=444"},"modified":"2003-04-14T09:32:59","modified_gmt":"2003-04-14T14:32:59","slug":"i_wonder_if_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/14\/i_wonder_if_the.html","title":{"rendered":"I wonder if they can get their medals back"},"content":{"rendered":"

No wonder Russia<\/a> is having so much trouble in Chechnya.<\/p>\n

Last week it was disclosed that two retired three-star generals — Vladislav Achalov (a former paratrooper and specialist in urban warfare) and Igor Maltsev (a specialist in air defense) — visited Baghdad recently and were awarded medals by Hussein. The awards were handed out by Iraqi Defense Minister Sultan Khashim Akhmed.
\nIt was reported that the retired generals helped Hussein prepare a war plan to defeat the Americans. Achalov confirmed he was in Baghdad just before the war and received medals from Hussein for services rendered. He also told journalists that the defense of Baghdad was well organized, U.S. tanks would be burned if they enter the city and U.S. infantry would be slaughtered. According to Achalov, the only way the allies could ever take Baghdad and other Iraqi cities was to raze them to the ground by carpet bombing.<\/p>\n

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No wonder Russia is having so much trouble in Chechnya. Last week it was disclosed that two retired three-star generals — Vladislav Achalov (a former paratrooper and specialist in urban…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24549,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/mission-accomplished.html","url_meta":{"origin":444,"position":0},"title":"Mission Accomplished?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Dec-11 11:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"The best thing that can be said for the Iraq War is that, yes, Saddam Hussein is gone, and even (future) potential of his (perhaps once again) pursuit of WMDs (even if he wasn't doing so at the time of the invasion) is eliminated. 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