“1203: The Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, decrees that any Iraqi who kills an enemy soldier will get a reward of 25m dinars (£8,900). The reward will be doubled if an enemy soldier is taken captive, the official Iraqi news agency reports.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,918953,00.html
What kind of leader puts out a general hit contract in such a fashion? THIS is the man that France thinks is worthy of being kept in power at any cost?
Exactly when did “France” say this?
THIS is the man France was unwliling to remove?
(Heh…I wonder how much the US would have to pay if this was implemented here)
<Breaking news>The US government has gone further into debt since enacting the “Bounty Laws”</breaking news>
You have a problem with Iraq paying their soldiers during a time of invasion?
Hell, I give him credit for it. Especially since he won’t have any “credits” to pay off his debts very soon.
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I also still don’t see why so many people (mainly Americans as I perceive it) are demonising France, when several other major world powers are equally vocal against war.
China has even demanded immediate cessation of military action and withdrawal of troops, which I am not aware that Chirac has.
So why cheapen your point with a unnecessary, irrelevant sling at France, Dogface?
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Ah, therefore, you approve of running armies like they were hit squads, eh? You must adore body counts. There is a vast difference between paying ones soldiers and putting a kill bounty out.
It’s tradition! The deGaullists oppose and pooh-pooh the USA, Americans make raspberries at France.
You children–you all think the world began in 1980…
So what, exactly, would happen in America were forcibly invaded and did not have a strong military? Would the president send out a decree of “You know those people dressed as enemies rumbling their tanks down your streets and taking over your stuff?- well don’t shoot them, k? If you shoot them, you won’t be considered a hero. Because that’s not virtous.”
I think it shows a serious morale problem in the Iraqi army.
Hell, if the US of A were invaded, I’d be poppin’ the SOB’s for free.
Wait a sec! You mean Saddam isn’t a nice guy? Another scoop appearing in the pages of the magazine “Duh!”. On sale at newsstands now.
Me too, and <the rest of America who are not gun grabbers> too. That’s why America doesn’t get invaded.
Silly me. Here I was thinking it was because of our HUGE NUCLEAR ARSENAL.
I’m sure that helps as well. 
Of course, then there are the Swiss. Wee tiny country, but every able bodied man owns (and has been trained with) a rifle. Partisan combat is not something an invading force wants to get into (if the goal is to take over territory), especially if every single structure will be filled with combatants.
Just ask the GIs in Afghanistan, Vietnam vets, or the guys currently in Iraq for that matter.
The US citizens in the Flying Tigers received a bonus for aircraft shot down.
Dogface, are you somehow suggesting that US troops aren’t paid to capture or kill the enemy?
What, exactly, is your problem here? You just don’t like the incentive pay system in place?
…and the USA offera a reward for terrorists or info on them.
True, but they were mercenaries and they got their bonus from the Chinese government.
Are you reading what I actually post? Hussein is offering MONEY for each individual kill. Do you understand. He is not calling upon people to defend their homeland–he is paying them for EACH SPECIFIC KILL. Do you really think that most people are such slimeballs that they would only defend their homes if they are paid off for each kill they score?
Y’know, the Netherlands didn’t have to do that to get their citizens to put up what little resistance they could against the Germans.
Please quote specific US regulations that put out a price per kill bonus for US troops. Otherwise, you are simply full of excrement. US soldiers get hazard/combat pay, but it is NOT rated on how many lives they have taken.
Ah, I see. So as far as you are concerned, all members of the US military are exactly equivalent to the murderers who flew into the WTC on 9/11.
Now that I realize whose side you’re really on, I’ll treat everything you say accordingly.