{"article":{"id":259043,"heading":"Flashback to British invasion of Iraq:"Show them no pity. They have stains on their souls"","author":"Cem Ert\u00fcr","created":"2013-03-21 05:35:17","modified":"2026-10-25 17:02:54","last_modified":"Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:02:54","article":"
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Flashback to the British invasion\r\nof Iraq: \"Show them no\r\npity. They have stains on their souls\"<\/p>\r\n
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\r\nPropaganda alert
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\r\ncompiled by Cem Ertür
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\r\n19 March 2013
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\r\nBritish commander Tim Collin’s “historic”\r\nspeech on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq was the final act of a\r\nsix-month long intensive propaganda campaign in Britain.
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\r\nThe\r\nSun, 20 March 2003<\/span>
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\r\n[caption]    ENEMY troops with \"stains on\r\ntheir souls\" must be shown no pity, British soldiers were told last\r\nnight as they prepared for war.
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\r\n        \r\n         Lt Col Tim\r\nCollins, pictured, issued a battlecry in Kuwait for Our Boys to \"rock\r\nthe world\" of Saddam's evil diehards.
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\r\n                 \r\nHe ordered that they be wiped out - but told his 800 men to spare\r\nIraqis who switch sides.
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“The\r\nenemy should be in no doubt that we are his nemesis and that we are\r\nbringing about his rightful destruction. There are many regional [i.e.\r\nIraqi] commanders who have stains on their souls, and they are stoking\r\nthe fires of hell for Saddam. He and his forces will be destroyed by\r\nthis coalition for what they have done. As they die, they will know\r\ntheir deeds have brought them to this place. Show them no pity.\r\n[…]  I expect you to rock their world. Wipe them\r\nout if that is what they choose.”
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\r\n[British\r\ncommander Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Collins, speech delivered to the 1st\r\nBattalion of the Royal Irish Regiment, Fort Blair Mayne base near\r\nKuwait’s border with Iraq, 19 March 2003. The invasion of\r\nIraq was officially launched the following day<\/span>.] \r\n(*)
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\r\n(*)  UK\r\ntroops told: Be just and strong
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\r\n      BBC News website, 20 March 2003
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