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| Axis of Evil |
| Baghdad crawling with U.S., Brit spies. Really. |
| 2002-07-19 |
| Britain and the United States have begun sending spies into Iraq to stir up rebellion in advance of a prospective invasion next year aimed at toppling Saddam Hussein, according to British military sources and leading British newspapers. The task of the agents, along with CIA operatives, is to make contact with opponents of Saddam and capitalize on what one military analyst described to the Times of London as a "popular loathing" of the regime. Whoops! There goes another busload now... The undercover operations are designed to pave the way for a 250,000-strong invasion force — up to 30,000 of them British, the rest American. The assault is expected by next spring, although it could begin as early as January or February. But don't tell Sammy, okay? It's a secret... The stated purpose of the invasion would be to destroy Baghdad's stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction — chemical, biological and possibly nuclear — but the ancillary goal would be to get rid of Iraq's leader. Yeah, yeah. We know that... Baghdad has vowed to behead invaders and repel any attack on its borders. In the Mother of All Battles they were going to "eat" our pilots... I'm starting to enjoy this saturation release of "war plans." The article goes on to describe how many Brit troops are going to be taking part, adding that they're being withdrawn from the Balkans and Afghanistan for desert training. This is one of a series of at least a dozen "war plans" that have been "leaked" in the past month, all of them contradictory in at least some respects. The spies story is absolutely brilliant. It's entirely likely that we haven't dispatched a single "spy" to the area — but if Sammy counts on that and guesses wrong, his poop's in the street. As the actual invasion, if there really is one, draws closer, groups allied with us will be sending agents, and Sammy can count on that, even if the Washington Times hadn't told him. So Mukhabarat, the secret police, is going to running around, very busy, rounding up "subversives" and beating the hell out of them and 99% of them are going to be innocent bystanders or people somebody doesn't like. Every potential draftee that they kill is one that we don't have to worry about killing; every one whose Dad or brother was bumped off is one more potential deserter. And the suspicion among the Ba'athists that half the people they meet are disloyal, that's priceless. For everything else, we'll need Mastercard. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |