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...Saddam Hussein didn't want to believe what his intelligence networks were saying. Before the war last spring, says a former colonel in the Iraqi intelligence service, Saddam's analysts presented him with classified reports predicting a decisive U.S. victory. The documents described how the Iraqi security forces, already outmatched, had been undermined by Washington's success in recruiting Iraqi spies and double agents. Internal intelligence reported to Saddam that Iraq's defenses would probably collapse. "We diplomatically suggested he should not stay here," the colonel says, "because we couldn't tell him outright that he had to step down...
Five days later, the Iraqi leader could no longer keep up his staunch facade. His orders largely unheeded, his soldiers declining to fight, Saddam went out for a look at his falling capital, a secretary who accompanied him recalls. Saddam stood on Zaitun Street, the boulevard decorated with monumental statues of two muscular forearms holding swords that cross above the roadway. As he turned to leave, he paused. Using an Arabic expression of utter disillusionment, he muttered, "Even my clothes have betrayed...
Indeed, the quick and relatively painless U.S. overthrow of Saddam's regime was achieved not just by military means but also by betrayal. Before a shot was fired, the U.S. recruited and dispatched Iraqi collaborators to uncover Saddam's plans and capabilities, and hobble them. Deals were done; psychological warfare was waged; money was paid; and even blackmail was used. While the Bush Administration's post-Saddam planning has proved wanting, in this area of prewar thinking, Washington's strategies paid off. By the time the first U.S. tanks crossed the Kuwaiti border, top Republican Guard officers had been...
...behind the bombing - and what it might portend. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the other usual suspects denied involvement, saying their quarrel is with Israel alone. A senior Palestinian security source points the finger at a new culprit: the Arab Liberation Front, a small P.L.O. group once backed by Saddam Hussein. This source tells Time that the A.L.F. may have paid malcontents in Yasser Arafat?s Fatah faction to strike at the U.S. to punish the occupiers of Iraq. A.l.f. officials would not comment. But any such link between Iraq and Palestinian violence would be a disturbing new development Israeli intelligence...
...cuts in health and education. This country, my friends, is rolling in dough, and I don’t just mean the $87 billion more that will go to fund George W. Bush’s favorite virtual reality video-game, “Where in the World Is Saddam Hussein,” where W. bumbles through an international geography puzzle looking for Saddam who, with the help of Osama Bin Laden, has made off with WMDs. No, this government has so much money that it has just given preliminary approval for $650 million dollars in Liberty Bonds?...