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Retired war hero speaks out: one of our nation's most highly decorated combat veterans offers his thoughts on the current war against Iraq, including why "we should get out fast!".(Andrew Gatsis)(Interview)

The New American

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Brigadier General Andrew Gatsis is one of our nation's most highly decorated veterans. Awarded numerous medals for bravery in combat during both the Korean and Vietnam Wars, he retired from active duty in 1975 after more than three decades of service in the U.S. Army.

THE NEW AMERICAN sought him out for his thoughts about the current war against Iraq, and he minced no words. "We never should have gone in there in the first place since we weren't immediately threatened," he thundered. "There were no weapons of mass destruction; Saddam Hussein's regime had no connection to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and wasn't responsible for the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center; and there wasn't any evidence to back up the claim that Iraq was building nuclear weapons capability. All the reasons given by the administration to justify this war have been shown to be false."

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