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>You don't really believe that there is secret contact with Iraqi generals, do you????

Yes I do. I know it has happened in the past so it is only logical that it will happen in the future also. This is the first time I have seen it made public though. Normally, you do not want these arrangements publicized, but it is probably for 'psychological warfare' to let Saddam know how little military support he has within his own generals to hopefully prevent military action at all. That is probably why the few soldiers that already tried to surrender was made public in the news media too.

Makes you wonder: because so much is coming out in the news media that typically goes on whenever the military gets involved (even in small skirmishes that are not even publicized) behind the scenes, it is starting to look like a 'major fakeout' that went 'wrong.' Perhaps war was NEVER intended at all from the get-go. Perhaps our government wanted to pressure Saddam into leaving the country by intimidating him with our military forces and physcological warfare methods and publicizing it all in the media is supposed to get the word to him. If that is the case, then it certainly backfired, because France and Germany and Russia are not cooperating and now it looks like the U.S. is forced to conduct a military operation afterall and ALONE.

Well, IF that were the case anyway...