Iraq WMDs: Worst Marketing Campaign Strategy In Modern History
By haystack Posted in AYFKM? | Iraq | Miscellanea | Saddam | WMD — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
From my AYFKM files (don't ask if you don't already know):
Every now and again, you come across a news story intended to say one thing...but it winds up hitting you upside the head with something altogether different. With so much going on around here, it's no surprise there's not more being said about THIS story, but I just can NOT let this one go by without some response:
Saddam Hussein initially didn't think the U.S. would invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, so he kept the fact that he had none a secret to prevent an Iranian invasion he believed could happen. The Iraqi dictator revealed this thinking to George Piro, the FBI agent assigned to interrogate him after his capture.
Now, I think we're supposed to be aghast...he really DIDN'T have those weapons...see? We really SHOULDN'T have deposed him and set his people on a crash course with liberty and freedom. Maybe we should even be horrified that we could be so easily duped by a nutjob on par with Peter Sellers in The Mouse That Roared.
What struck me was none of these things...all I could come up with was a low-throated chuckle, and an out loud guffaw trying to visualize him in his palace watching CNN as we moved troops in to Kuwait by the thousands, moved all those carriers and destroyers into the Persian Gulf, and brought in all those jet fighters and bombers...as W. repeatedly warned him to get that report to the UN if he was really compliant with all those Security Council Resolutions.
We waited, gave him extensions, and for all our international patience we got hundreds of pages of babbling and rambling gibberish. And this, because he was more worried about the Iranians who MIGHT have SOMEDAY invaded...versus the full might of the American Military machine pulling in and setting up shop in Kuwait...tap tap tapping on Saddam's Nation's door.
Is it just me, or was his decision to impress Iran (and implicitly intimidate them) by flouting an arsenal he didn't have, JUST about the most poorly planned and executed Marketing scheme anyone could ever have dredged up...given shock and awe, and that length of hemp that he was introduced to? Somehow, I don't think that worked out all that well...just sayin'...
they would say that Saddam was his own worst enemy....he "shucked a jived" and lost. I am consistantly amazed that most people are unaware of the game of chicken that he played and that there were no "lies"...other than his own. Saddam and sons got their due and are in the hell they belong in....
Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion
you know, say this is true. If Saddam was more worried about Iran than the US Military, paticularly once we were at his borders ready to go and passed the War Resolutions, etc.
it just proves how much those in the Middle East viewed America as a Paper Tiger who could be pushed around and they could ultimately ignore our demands.
which also explains why Gadafi in Lybia pissed in his pants and turned over his WMD program right away after Saddam fell.
We also need to continue to point out Saddams' Terror ties and support, which are documented and also part of the War Resoltuion.
How millions of people can still go around chanting, "Bush lied." blows my mind. How a majority of those people think 9/11 is a cover up that was planned by our own government blows my mind even more. People are so unbelievably stupid when they think they know everything about issues that they have not looked into in any depth.