The fact that Saddam, all of a very sudden, is pulling troop movement rumors off the Reuters Wire is intended. The tighter the noose gets, the more unpredictable he becomes, the more executions he will order.
The day is coming when some ambitious officer, perhaps even a member of Saddams Special Republican Guard, will put a well-deserved bullet in Saddam's brain.
An officer's coup is in the offing, much like the July 20th plot against the Adolf. This is one way of telling the Iraqi General Staff to get on the stick and "liquidate" the whole Hussein clan.
However, there's a problem. All that would replace Hussein is another ambitious, corrupt military officer.
We must insist on a constitutionally based republican transformation. Otherwise, a few years will pass and we will be dealing with another mountebank.
Be Seeing You,
Chris