March 23, 2006

The Dam is Breaking

I realize that it would be a mistake to draw any sweeping conclusions from the small sample of recently released documents captured from Saddam's Iraq, but we can surely learn from certain of them, as Dan Darling demonstrates in his Weekly Standard article the other day. Darling's first example cites Qusay Hussein's authorization to set up Kuwaiti prisoners to be "civilian casualties" of the U.S. bombing campaign, and the second documents the regime's orders to use chemical weapons to kill Iranians and Kurds. Read it all, and stay tuned. (Dan Darling blogs at Regnum Crucis)

The first in-depth study resulting from an analysis of captured Iraqi regime documents is the Foreign Affairs publication of "Saddam's Delusions:The View From the Inside", a two-year study commissioned by the U.S. Joint Forces Command which draws on interviews with regime officials and evaluation of thousands of regime documents. Pack a lunch, but it's worth taking the time to read.

Official site for released documents from Iraq

Official site for released documents from Afghanistan

Posted by dan at March 23, 2006 12:05 AM