Iraq

In the animal kingdom, it often happens that a smaller, more helpless animal will use camouflage and outright deception to make it look larger or more dangerous, when confronted with a threatening predator.

This is elemental and elementary.

Imagine my amusement now that the US Intelligence community is pondering the possibility that Saddam deliberately projected a more dangerous image to the outside world... in order to stop the much stronger US from attacking Iraq.



One U.S. intelligence official said: "people were just telling us what we wanted to hear."



Well, duh!!!