The Saddam strategy myth

Ralph Peters:

"THE latest nonsense served up by defeatist pundits insists that Saddam Hussein, a strategic genius, had a secret plan all along to lure us into Iraq where he could wage a brilliant guerrilla campaign to defeat us.

"In other words, it was Saddam's intention to see his sons killed, the majority of his senior leadership imprisoned, his police-state shattered, his military dissolved, his palaces repossessed, his country overrun and his domestic enemies empowered.

"Some strategy."

While Peeters is correct to denegrate this ridiculous proposition, I think the intent of those who put it forward is primarily to denegrate the victory the US achieved against Saddam's forces. Whatever their intent, it is still a really crazy strategy they think is brilliant which says much about their own ability at strategic thinking.