From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 00:15:43 MDT
--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Not surprised. Given his documented history, US
> forces likely
> determined quickly that anything he said could not
> be considered
> credible information. He was a funny guy, though. He
> has a future in
> the US media if he wants it, even if only on
> Letterman or The Daily Show.
...y'know, that's a predictable enough outcome, from a
certain point of view, that one might start to wonder
if he planned it that way. Consider: you're the Iraqi
Minister of Info. Say you know exactly what's going
down, and your boss left you with the castle when he
fled, so you owe him no loyalty any longer. You're
looking out for number one. But you were his Minister
of Info, and you know how big on info the US is.
(Maybe you don't exactly know what, say, a "cyberwar"
is, beyond generally an attack on their information
infrastructure, but you've read articles saying
they're
scared fecesless about it.)
How logical a conclusion would it be, then, that you
might be their number one target or close to it, and
if
they catch you as is, they'll grill you for the rest
of
your (probably unnaturally short) life trying to find
more WMDs than actually exist (whether or not Saddam
had any in the first place)? And once you reach that
conclusion, what strategies pop up for extricating
yourself from that fate? Lying brazenly and openly
with a straight face until they arrive, then offering
to cooperate once they do, seems like a simple plan.
This is all speculation, of course. If he did do it
deliberately, he can never confirm it for any kind of
record. And there are quite a few who might not
believe him if he did anyway.
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