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The "inside information" from Hunt about the Saddam strike is baffling. The CIA "burns" their mole on the decapitation strike, yet we don't conduct a secondary strike on the target to attack the "rescue" personnel as they pulled the people from the bunker, one of whom is supposedly a wounded Saddam? When a few more cruise missiles a couple of hours after the attack could have cinched it? Doesn't pass the smell test to me.

"Soviet Stratgy for Nuclear War" by Douglass and Hoeber said that they deliberately planned on avoiding taking out POTUS as they felt it was important to have him alive to surrender. In addition to satisfying their need to a "legal" end to hostilities, they felt that way the Amercian people would be more inclined to accept the "inevitable".

[Republic of Texas]

Those crazy Soviets thought of everything!

Except of course how to develop an political and economic system that would take advantage of human nature and provide the most prosperity for the most citizens, thereby generating the tax dollars neccessary to defeat the US so they could implement their diabolical "let the POTUS live so we can conquer the US more easily" strategy.