(New York Times) A complacent Saddam Hussein was so convinced that war would be averted or that America would mount only a limited bombing campaign that he deployed the Iraqi military to crush domestic uprisings rather than defend against a ground invasion, according to a classified log of interrogations of captured Iraqi leaders and former officers dated Jan. 26. The study offers a scathing history of a Stalinist, paranoid leadership circle in Baghdad disconnected from reality in peace and in war, where members of Hussein's inner circle routinely lied to him and each other about Iraqi military capacities.
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