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Military Genius

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The Iraqi dictator [Hussein] was so secretive and kept information so compartmentalized that his top military leaders were stunned when he told them three months before the war that he had no weapons of mass destruction, and they were demoralized because they had counted on hidden stocks of poison gas or germ weapons for the nation’s defense … In December 2002, he told his top commanders that Iraq did not possess unconventional arms, like nuclear, biological or chemical weapons … [he] wanted his officers to know they could not rely on poison gas or germ weapons if war broke out. The disclosure that the cupboard was bare … sent morale plummeting.

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