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More than 200 former Iraqi generals, politicians, and religious leaders meeting in London this week said they support a U.S. military strike on Iraq. The dissidents said they want to help establish a democratic government after Saddam Hussein is toppled. And that should be easier than the Americans fear, they said. Gen. Najib al–Salhi, a tank commander for Saddam’s fearsome Republican Guards who defected in 1995, said the dissidents are in contact with current Iraqi army officers who oppose Saddam. “Morale is at a disastrous level, and the troops are sick of continuous war,” al–Salhi said. If the U.S. invades, he said, “Saddam will find himself surrounded by a few hundred soldiers.”
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