Re: [nukkad] Saddam Hussein and his pre-war thinking

["Ravi Menon" <>]

I agree that the Saddam regime were cruel etc etc.
But closer to home was Chile, Peru, Argentina and others in the
Caribbean. However none of them have any oil to speak of so it hardly
worried the Americans despite being in their own backyard.
In defence of Saddam I must say that once you achieve such power
through whatever means, delusions of grandeur soon follow. Bushie
ain't no exception too.
The Americans won the war in Iraq, if you can classify that a victory
not because of a superior thinking army, or soldiers but because of
advanced weaponry. Other things being equal, I doubt they would be
better than the Iraqi's.
At a recent joint Indo-US exercise in India, the Indian soldiers
laughed at the Americans when on an infantry route march, the
Americans rested every 5 kms, while the Indian soldiers trudged on
for 15 at a time. The stories of their manpower's inadequacies had me
amused not surprised.

Ravi

On 5/23/06, Indian Rediff  wrote:
> >From the article in Foreign Affairs magazine.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ea5ut
>
>
> The Editor's note:
>
> The fall of Baghdad in April 2003 opened one of the most secretive and
> brutal governments in history to outside scrutiny. For the first time
> since the end of World War II, American analysts did not have to guess
> what had happened on the other side of a conflict but could actually
> read the defeated enemy's documents and interrogate its leading
> figures. To make the most of this unique opportunity, the U.S. Joint
> Forces Command (USJFCOM) commissioned a comprehensive study of the
> inner workings and behavior of Saddam Hussein's regime based on
> previously inaccessible primary sources. Drawing on interviews with
> dozens of captured senior Iraqi military and political leaders and
> hundreds of thousands of official Iraqi documents (hundreds of them
> fully translated), this two-year project has changed our understanding
> of the war from the ground up. The study was partially declassified in
> late February; its key findings are presented here.
>
> I would love to print the entire article here - but will instead do so
> at our common e-mail on gmail.
>
> Suffice it to sa that some of the incidents quoted in the article had
> me chortling away. We may have seen delusional people, but Saddam has
> taken it to a new level.
>
> Sai
>
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