![]() ![]() You will be embarrassed by their hospitality even though they have nothing.ĭon't treat them as refugees for they are in their own country. and you will have to go a long way to find a more decent, generous and upright people than the Iraqis. You will see things that no man could pay to see It is the site of the Garden of Eden, of the Great Flood and the birthplace of Abraham. Wipe them out if that is what they choose.īut if you are ferocious in battle remember to be magnanimous in victory. Those who do not wish to go on that journey, we will not send.Īs for the others, I expect you to rock their world. There are some who are alive at this moment who will not be alive shortly. We are entering Iraq to free a people and the only flag which will be flown in that ancient land is their own. We will not fly our flags in their country. No voice or video recording of it exists and it is Sarah Oliver's version of the speech which has been written into history. It was recorded in shorthand by Sarah Oliver, a Mail on Sunday journalist. The speech, which was given more or less off-the-cuff to the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment (1 R IRISH) Battle Group on 19 March 2003, several days before crossing the Iraq border on Operation TELIC, became famous worldwide. ![]() Lieutenant Colonel T T C Collins delivers his eve-of-battle speech to officers and Rangers of 1 R IRISH Battle Group on 19 March 2003. ![]()
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