Exiled Iraqis want to fight ‘invaders’

AMMAN: Thousands of Iraqi exiles have been returning home over the past week from Jordan, with many insisting they want to defend their country against US and British “invaders.'' 

Jordanian records show that 5,284 Iraqis have crossed the desert border overland into Iraq since March 16, Col Ahmad al-Hazaymeh, director of Jordan's al Karama border post, said on Monday. 

Iraq's consular office here said it issued at least 3,000 temporary passports for exiled Iraqis in the last three days. Of those, half have already returned to Iraq, spokesman Jawad al-Ali said. 

“They all said they wanted to take part in the fight against the Americans,'' al-Ali said. 

An estimated 350,000 Iraqi exiles live in Jordan. Most have arrived since the 1990-91 Gulf War and stayed, most of them illegally. Some were persecuted by Saddam's regime, while others were seeking to escape the hardships under UN sanctions imposed on Iraq following its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. – AFP 

From their point of view the U.S. Expeditionary Army of Conquest is an Invader.

Is anyone really surprised that Iraqi Patriots would defend their country?

Let 'em come. We've got a lot of ammo to burn off.