Oscar Jr. Was Here

Saddam's Strategy

On NRO, Jed Babbin discusses what his intelligence sources say is Saddam's slaughter victory strategy:

Suppose Saddam's illegals rounded up a crowd of, say, two or three thousand Iraqis, promising food or other rewards for making threatening gestures and throwing rocks. Suppose they then dressed up in the American and British uniforms we know they have. And suppose they then attacked and killed the thousand "demonstrators." A handy snapshot or two while the shooting went on would be good, and the endless Al-Jazeera footage would be better. It would be omnipresent on the world's television stations for days or weeks.

With that video in hand, the Arab League--which condemns the war and the U.S. on alternate days--would march into the U.N., where France, Germany and Russia would be waiting to join in condemnations and threats of U.N. sanctions and war-crimes trials unless we stopped in our tracks. The pressure to negotiate a ceasefire would be more intense than anything ever mustered against Israel, and the Democrats would finally have the ammunition they needed to attack the President. Calls for investigations, congressional special panels, and more press than anyone has ever seen anywhere would be all over the president. The war would be forgotten in this feeding frenzy.

Babbin ends his blog-entry by noting:

The only way to combat this monstrous strategy is to expose it before it is put in motion. I think we just did.

I hope he's correct.