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October 13, 2004
Saddam Hussein's Misplaced Faith in the CIA
Saddam Hussein and the neocons have at least one thing in common besides megalomania: They both thought the CIA had a thorough knowledge of Iraq's WMDs or lack thereof.
Among other things in this interesting article, we find that
Saddam Hussein misread U.S. intentions in part because he believed the CIA was far better at spying than it turned out to be. Senior aides told interrogators that Hussein was convinced the U.S. intelligence agency knew he had no illicit weapons. . . .
He was wrong. In July, the Senate Intelligence Committee reported that the CIA had no informants or spies inside Iraq for at least five years before the war.
The article makes it clear that Hussein didn't think of the U.S. as a serious enemy but instead thought he could get our government to go back to the old days when Hussein was considered a bulwark against Iran. Obviously he hadn't counted on George W. Bush and the neocons.
It's definitely worth reading the whole thing.
(Thanks to Antiwar.com for the link.)
Posted by Mike Tennant at October 13, 2004 11:03 AM