From AP: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83875,00.html "We volunteered to defend Baghdad," said Firas Ali Abdullah, who returned to Syria with seven other Syrians and Lebanese on Wednesday. "Instead of giving us weapons to fight, they used us as human shields." Nationalism and religious fever can only carry you so far. Apparently, Saddam's regime was just plain ruthless, even to its allies…