CBS News’ 60 Minutes interviews George Piro an FBI agent who had been assigned to interrogate Saddam Hussein upon his capture.
Piro reveals that the Iraqi dictator miscalculated the threat that the US posed to his regime.
Saddam Hussein initially didn’t think the U.S. would invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, so he kept the fact that he had none a secret to prevent an Iranian invasion he believed could happen. The Iraqi dictator revealed this thinking to George Piro, the FBI agent assigned to interrogate him after his capture.
I have to say that this comes as no shock to me. Saddam believed he was playing a regional game by feeding disinformation to Iran unaware that his game would backfire on the world stage with a US President needing a victory for propaganda purposes having failed to capture Osama Bin Laden.
It seems that both Saddam Hussein and the Western leaders that took us to war had failed to heed the words of Sun Tzu to “Know your enemy”.
Or as the Japanese learned following their attack on Pearl Harbour “Never underestimate the United States willingness to go to war”.
