NYT Sunday: A secret history of the Iraq war...

[rawstory]

http://rawstory.com/news/2006/New_York_Times_Sunday_splash_A_0311.html

New York Times Sunday splash: A secret history of the Iraq war, reliant on U.S. military documents

RAW STORY

The New York Times plans the first in a series of two articles regarding Saddam Hussein's pre-war and Iraq war strategy based on a "secret U.S. military history." While the story looks to shed light on the internal workings of the Hussein government, it relies largely on internal U.S. military documentation, secret interviews, and the interrogation records of American analysts, many of whom posed as "military historians."

The documents purport that Saddam was "deeply distrustful" of his own soldiers, making crucial decisions himself and micromanaging, effectively hobbling his forces. Some examples, the TIMES says, include:

-- The Iraqi dictator was so secretive and kept information so compartmentalized that his top military leaders were stunned when he told them three months before the war that he had no weapons of mass destruction, and they were demoralized because they had counted on hidden stocks of poison gas or germ weapons for the nation's defense.
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-- He put a general widely viewed as an incompetent drunkard in charge of the Special Republican Guard, entrusted to protect the capital, primarily because he was considered loyal.

http://rawstory.com/news/2006/New_York_Times_Sunday_splash_A_0311.html

[Greeby]

1. Sounds like the GWB school of war management

:eyes:

[madrchsod]

2. ya i was thinking the same thing

were they talking about bush or saddam...

[leftchick]

3. Saddam is and was Irrelevant!

They should be examining the Cherry pickers in the WH since the Senate Intelligence committee won't be any time soon.

[KoKo]

4. Sounds like a Propaganda job....Hope I'm wrong but Bush is making

his big push the next three weeks to "explain Iraq" to the American people. ..NYT's...the paper who pushed for war non-stop. hmmmm..

[rodeodance]

5. you connected the dots good.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. There is only one reason for this article at this time

Bush is planning a new Iraq war PR push. He will state again and again that even Saddam's generals thought they had WMD, so how could he have known they didn't. This is classic Bushista propaganda: plan a well timed release to the New York Times, then harp on the Times story incessantly in a public relations campaign. This is what they used Judy Miller for, and this is what the Times is doing again.

All the information to come from military intelligence? That's not history, Gray Lady, secret or otherwise. That's fucking strategy. And while you may feel, Gray Lady, perfectly comfortable as a mere strategic resource for the Bush Administration, you do your readers a disservice by continuing to call yourself a newspaper in the process.

[sam sarrha]

7. we could have bought them off a lot cheaper...

[RC]

8. But then cheney & friends would not have gotten richer.