Yes, you're right, that's plausible and even probable. But both of those things are just the oddities that make me wonder. I think the RG is so outclassed that all we need is to draw them into making a move. Any move.
Letting the well known showmaker, Geraldo, appear to give out some vital info might be all it would take to get an ego maniac like Saddam to order an assault. It is obvious that we want to take them on out on a battlefield rather than house to house in Baghdad.