[neverdem]

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[okie01]

If our intelligence on Iraq is to be faulted (there were WMD), it is being unaware of Saddam's formal preparation of his Fedayeen as a "last line of defense".

In the event of invasion, he planned to go to ground and direct an insurgency -- and had prepared the ground to do exactly that. Evidently, we were totally unprepared for this tactic.

[neverdem]

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[Straight Vermonter]

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[eyespysomething]

Thanks for the ping neverdem!

Origins of the Iraqi Insurgency

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[Grampa Dave]

Excellent data. Thanks for posting this.

[kabar]

Iraqi officials understand the insurgency quite differently from U.S. officials. In late 2005, the Iraqi Defense Minister instructed the embassy in Washington to tell the Americans that the Baathists were the enemy. His warning, which followed a mortar attack targeting General George Casey and Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, evidently fell on deaf ears.

Similarly, another senior Iraqi politician told a small group of Americans last fall that Zarqawi was "nothing." Zarqawi's operation is essentially run by the Syrian mukhabarrat, this Iraqi figure explained. Jihadis are recruited through the mosques to Syria, where they are trained by individuals from Afghanistan. They then cross into Iraq, all the time under the watchful eyes of Syrian authorities, without realizing that they are, in fact, part of a major Syrian intelligence operation.

This is the core of the problem. We are fighting in Iraq the intelligence organizations of Syria and Iran. The "insurgents" are just extensions and tools of these governments.

[Robert A Cook PE]

So, Saddamn was WRITING instructions for roadside bombs and improvised (terrorist) explosives (for use AGAINST civilians and un-armed innocent bystanders) in 1999.

Under Clinton's presidency of appeasement and innocence.

[Billthedrill]

Syrian intelligence has been playing this game longer than the Iranians even. And what has been established in Lebanon between these two makes the Iraqi insurgency look like a birthday party. There two state-supported terror efforts have successfully destabilized and partitioned a third, weaker state to the point where that state simply is no more.

That is precisely the pattern they have attempted (and still are attempting) in Iraq. That is why it is central to that effort to get the various Iraqi factions involved in a civil war, just as Lebanon in the 80's. To this end al-Qaeda is either a tool or irrelevant; at the moment it seems to be vacillating between the two. It cannot now be what it wanted: a spearhead of a popular revolution.

Succeed or fail, it's an exercise in butchery. I think it will fail, personally. The Iraqis have one single motivation for remaining a unified state that the Lebanese did not enjoy - nobody gets rich from the oil unless everybody does.

[jazusamo]

Thanks for post and ping.

[Hardastarboard]

I can name that tune in two words "Bush's fault".