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  • The Elite's Feeling the Heat [commentary on Russian propaganda re the Iraq war]

    04/09/2003 1:24:37 PM PDT · by jpthomas · 33 replies · 384+ views
    The Moscow Times ^ | Thursday, Apr. 10, 2003 [Moscow time] | Pavel Felgenhauer
    As the war in Iraq winds to its inevitable end, uneasy reflections are taking over Russia's political and military elite. No one in Moscow ever seriously believed that Saddam Hussein might indeed "defeat" the allied forces. But the speed and decisiveness of the offensive has bewildered many. Russian generals were expecting another prolonged so-called non-contact war, like the one against Yugoslavia in 1999, in Afghanistan in 2001 or the first gulf war in 1991, when a four-day ground offensive was preceded by a 39-day air bombardment. It was believed that the Americans were afraid of close hand-to-hand encounters, they would...