i found their scenario overblown. there are times when they are accurate, however. or like most "good" propaganda, a little truth is mixed with a lot of fiction. debka is a mixed bag.
what struck me about their story was the likelihood that if and when the war comes, it will be presented to the US public as a fait accompli, after it's started. all the talk about congress, or anyone else, having a role to play is pure nonsense. the debka version, possibly fictional at the moment, is certainly close to many people's fantasies about how the disaster will go down. whether or not the story of the invasion follows debka's format, there is some truth in its narrative.
it's clear the "business managers" of the shrub group are doing to the US what they did to their private corporations -- running it into the ground and not looking back.
R
At 04:44 AM 8/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, R wrote:
>
> > Report: US Military Operations Already Underway in Iraq
> > US Iraq Campaign Has Its First Engagement
> > DEBKAfile Special Military Analysis
>
>Be suspicious. Be very suspicious. If you read something from DEBKA
>that's an outlier that no one serious picks up (and Truthout doesn't
>count, it always picks them up), it's always made up, in my experience.
>They had lots of disinformation on Iraq and Al-Qaeda in the days after
>9/11. They present themselves as an Israeli Stratfor, but seem more like
>an Likudnik disinformation outlet.
>
>Michael