JULY 1 "YOU HAVE A ROLE, WHERE YOU ARE"

In his book “Saddam’s Secrets”, General George Sada
One of the questions frequently asked to Sada was what was it like to stand before Saddam Hussein and actually hear him say, “George, I’ve decided that the air force will attack Israel and wipe her out with chemical weapons”. ​I was thinking of it in two ways, he told me. One, as a Christian, as a believer. Second, as a national officer that belonged to the IRAQI FORCES… .as a Christian, I could not accept this order to send two waves of fighters to attack Israel, one wave through Jordan and one through Syria. I knew the capabilities of the Israeli air force and their air defenses and their plans to destroy all aircraft coming from the east before entering the Israeli borders. So this means that bombs were mostly going to drop on Jordan and Syria…but with 98 aircraft, some of them would still penetrate to Israel; just imagine as a Christian, the deaths that would result as all three countries were going to be hit by chemicals. Sada could not bear the thought of having to stand before Jesus Christ on the day of judgment with such a sin on his conscience. Nor could he bear to see the destruction that would be unleashed upon his own people if Saddam’s plan was successful. Twelve years later, it was Saddam Hussein, not Sada, who was finished. American coalition forces liberated Baghdad on April 9, 2003. Iraqis cheered in the streets in those heady first days. They sang and danced and wept as they tore down the forty foot statue of Saddam in Fardus square. Sada described for me the scene as he returned to Baghdad on May 8, 2003 [from epicenter] and entered Saddam’s main palace a few days later. the multi-million dollar gold and marble compound no longer had any doors or windows. everything was covered in dust. These hallways had been ground zero of the republic of fear only weeks before, but now here he was, a free man, walking around in a free country. Slowly, cautiously, Sada entered Saddam’s throne room, it took a few moments to grasp the enormity of what he was seeing, or rather not seeing. Saddam was not there. Saddam’s sons were not there. Saddam’s henchmen were not there. They ruled no longer. They could issue their evil, murderous decrees no longer. Iraq was free. Yes, troubles and trials lay ahead. Yes, life would be very hard for some time to come, but the butcher of Baghdad was gone. and Sada told me that when that truth sunk in, he began to weep. Before long, at Sada’s urging, Saddam’s throne room was being used for evangelical church services. In the very room where just a few months earlier Saddam had ordered Iraqis to their deaths, Christians were now gathering to worship the name of Jesus. What could be more fitting, Sada thought, than to turn Saddam’s house of evil into a house of God. ​“Did you ever imagine when you were in a meeting with Saddam Hussein that one day you would actually be worshipping Jesus in that very room? I asked him. “No, no”, he said, laughing like a man from whom a great burden has been lifted, “ I would never have dreamt that”  and yet it happened.


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