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Saddam on the run

Some details coming out here.

The Left's desperate attempt last week to paint Saddam as an old man irrelevant to the resistance effort collapsed almost immediately.

The bag contains documents and reports that show that since the collapse of his government, Saddam commanded a phantom regime from hiding.

The briefcase holds evidence of a resistance movement run on the lines of a Ba'athist totalitarian state, with himself at the top. It contains hundreds of names — all of them now in U.S. hands.

Intelligence sources who saw the bag's contents said they were amazed both by the unexpected extent of Saddam's involvement in the resistance and by his folly in keeping this detailed dossier with him.

They say Saddam believed the reports in his green briefcase, which show he was being lied to by his acolytes. The "battle reports" they couriered to him said what he wanted to hear: that the resistance was defeating U.S. forces.


This last part is interesting, as I and some others have submitted the "Emperor's New Clothes" theory as one possibility about where the WMD are, and why the evidence seemed so convincing before the attack. The theory is that WMD developers were feeding Saddam information and evidence leading him to believe they were making progress, when nothing in fact was being done. This could include fake facilities, fake results, and other things that would not only fool Saddam, but fool defectors and intelligence agencies outside the system. Of course, it's just a theory, but even Saddam's commanders thought their military had WMD.

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