07-25-2003, 09:20 AM | #1 | |||
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Iraq: Life on the Run
I don't know why but I find this interesting...
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07-25-2003, 09:25 AM | #2 |
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Very interesting indeed. Something I have wondered about more than once over the past few months.
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07-25-2003, 09:26 AM | #3 |
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Interesting, thanks.
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07-25-2003, 09:37 AM | #4 |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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Ditto, very interesting. I specifically remember the bombing of the restaurant during the war. It's amazing to now hear all of the cat-and-mouse games that were going on:
"Saddam asked the suspect, a captain, to prepare a safe house behind a restaurant in the Mansour district for a meeting. They arrived, and left again, almost immediately, by the back door. “Ten minutes after they went out of the door, it was bombed,” the bodyguard said. Saddam had the captain summarily executed while the Pentagon was claiming that the strike had probably finished off Saddam and Uday."
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07-25-2003, 12:04 PM | #5 |
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Very interesting artcile.
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07-25-2003, 12:11 PM | #6 |
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very interesting article. Thanks for posting it
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07-25-2003, 12:59 PM | #7 |
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Very interesting. Fleshes out a lot of the details that had been nagging at me since the war finished out, in particular the sureity of the American government that they thought they bagged Hussein in that massive strike near the end of the fighting. With events obviously contradicting that, I had wondered just who got killed and were we misled and made to look bad for the cameras. It turns out we were right, but Saddam was on to our informant (if this story is true).
It seems this war went like neither side expected. The Americans and the Iraqi leadership were both surprised at how easily the US rolled up the territory (aside from hiccups like at Najaf). It also reveals a bit of the megalomanical paranoia that Saddam believed that his army, which performed so poorly against the US in 1991 were somehow better able to resist this time around, only to fold up, leading him to believe they were treasonous rather than simply not wanting to fight and get killed for a leader who they thought wasn't worth it. Also jibs well with documents found in recent days that the Iraqis were planning a guerilla war to fight the occupation, since it looks like Saddam & Sons were constantly on the move and had (and do still have) many safe houses and ways of eluding US forces. Good read. |
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