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March 25, 2006

Moscow spies tipped Saddam on U.S. war plan

Topics: War on Terror

I know I mentioned this just two posts ago, but it's sufficiently alarming to bring it up again. From this article we learn that the report was produced in book form by U.S. Forces Command, which studies "lessons learned" in military operations.

Moscow had informants inside U.S. Central Command whose information on the March 2003 invasion of Iraq was relayed to dictator Saddam Hussein days before American troops ousted him from power, according to a Defense Department history released yesterday.

And, as U.S. troops encircled Baghdad in April, Russia's ambassador fed information from Moscow's intelligence service to Saddam's regime regarding U.S. troop movements.

The new disclosures show that Moscow was working against the Bush administration in private, as it opposed in public the U.S. desire for a United Nations Security Council resolution explicitly authorizing the invasion.

How appropriate that it's in a report of "lessons learned". The lessons learned here are simple. We've learned that we cannot trust the Russians, at all, and have no business letting the Russians have anything to do with how and when we and the Europeans handle the Iran problem, or any other problem. They are no more trustworthy than the Iranians, who have repeatedly lied, deceived, and cheated. So too have the Russians.

The friend of our enemy, when we are at war, is our enemy. We are in a world war against Islamofascism, and Iran is a central player in funding and conducting acts of Islamic terrorism against the U.S. and it's allies.

Russia had a chance to be America's friend. It chose to be our enemy once. Are we just slow learners?

Posted by Richard at March 25, 2006 7:46 AM

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