MUST READ -"Saddam's New War" [View All]

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http://www.msnbc.com/news/986713.asp?0cv=CB10

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There is growing evidence that the devastating series of terrorist attacks bedeviling U.S. troops in Iraq may have been planned by Saddam Hussein and his lieutenants as part of a well-coordinated guerilla war strategy that was hatched well before the U.S. invasion of Iraq last March, U.S. intelligence sources tell Newsweek.
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The most intriguing clues to support this view, officials say, are reports that dozens-and possibly even hundreds-of “suicide vests” rigged with explosives and detonators were discovered in caches by U.S. forces sweeping through Iraq as Saddam’s military and security apparatus crumbled and then melted away.
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If the story turns out to be true, then right off the bat it tells me a couple of things. One, in ShrubCo.'s rush to war, It vastly underestimated both the ability of Hussein to fight US forces on his terms and the difficulty in occupying a sovereign nation. Two, Saddam has us right were he wants us. Yesterday’s destruction of an Abrams MBT by insurgent forces does not bode well for continued occupation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3322826,00.html

This month of Ramadan may be some of the worst times in the US military's recent history.

Jay