The Republican Club hosted guest lecturer, Georges Sada, a retired general of the Iraqi Air Force, last night in the Bowker Auditorium. Sada brought a different perspective of the war in Iraq and the War on Terror to the University of Massachusetts campus, with harrowing wartime narratives and praises concerning American intervention in the Middle East.

"The American project in the Middle East is democracy and freedom," exclaimed Sada, an Assyrian and born-again Christian.

The existence of weapons of mass destruction was a top priority in Sada's agenda.

"I want to describe to you one thing: I have seen them [WMDs] with my eyes."

He stated that only a few days before the invasion of Iraq began that the weapons were moved by air and ground to Syria in a quick, but disorderly, manner by Saddam Hussein.

Sada profusely praised the efforts of the American military and expressed his extreme sympathy for those invested in the freeing of Iraq.

"I am sure they can manage to do it because my heart is bleeding when I hear that an American has been killed."

Sada, author of his autobiography "Saddam's Secrets: How an Iraqi General Defied & Survived Saddam Hussein," worked closely under Saddam Hussein, "a very difficult man," as a military general and senior counselor to the dictator, attempting on numerous occasions to dissuade Hussein from proposed events, such as invading Kuwait and attacking Israel with chemical weapons.

The former general began his talk with a discussion on the history of the nation.

"Iraq is a country very much deep in history