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Now you are getting into tinfoil land. If you think Saddam is clever enough to develop a giant plot to use militia groups to "divide America," well . . . .

Sending a guy to meet with McVeigh, maybe. I await further (any?) evidence. But we are talking about a tinpot dictator who actually believed his "republican guards" would last more than two days against our troops.

Do you know what an Israeli advisor to the U.S. command in the Middle East said on the day before ground operations? After surveying the facilities, he said, "Too many hospital beds, not enough POW camps."

So I take it you are conceding the point that you were in left field when you stated that McViegh was rational and fully in control of his facilities.

Now you are getting into tinfoil land. If you think Saddam is clever enough to develop a giant plot to use militia groups to "divide America," well . . . .

McViegh was utilized to tarnish militia groups and right wingers. Everyone recognizes that. Remember Clinton even pointing the finger at talk radio as causing this type of 'domestic terrorism'. Now if their is an Iraqi connection, then they must have been clever enough to realize that such an event would divide the nation and allow the government to control the internal strength of America. This is not just Saddam Hussien that we are up against. It is Saddam and extremist islamists fundamentalists. That group has been around for over a thousand years. Plotting to 'divide and conquer' is normal warfare for them and not really all that clever.

But yet, they are still there defending him right now !

The republican guard, for the most part, sat the war out. Those guys you saw surrendering en masse were cannon fodder conscripts...not to say that the Marine Corps won't cut through them like they are warm butter. Just that urban fighting will complicate things a bit.

Also, I think you are confusing the rhetoric Saddam spews for media with what he actually thinks is going to happen...he is evil, not delusional. It does not take much of a brain for him to come up with the current strategy of developing weapons of mass destruction to assure invulnerability; hell, it would have been a sure bet if we were under Klintoon or algore.

Our military has a long tradition of demanding overwhelming numbers and support against any foe, stemming back to the Civil War. For my money, that is better than getting caught short.