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President George W. Bush and the US in general should have learned something on February 16. The world laughed at America. After confidently proclaiming Saddam Hussein’s new fiber optics integrated air defense system was destroyed with America’s most technologically advanced satellite controlled air to ground smart bombs, it turns out that only 40 percent of the $160,000 JSOWs (Joint Standoff Weapon) missiles hit their target. The failure caused Saddam to prepare for a major attack Israel on February 22 which came within minutes of being launched. Only a massive air threat using tactical nuclear neutron bombs by the US, Britain and Israel kept Saddam at bay.

US military in a shambles

The embarrassed military command was grabbing excuses out of the air when the dismal performance of February 16 was announced. Only eight of twenty targets were hit. The big target, Iraq's command and control center was undamaged when the smart bombs missed to the left by about 100 feet. The fact that all the JSOWs that missed veered to the left suggested a guidance problem.

While our eyes roll, the foul-up has real world consequences. It shows again the wretched shape of our military. To be sure, some of the problem has to do with under-funded projects and overworked, underpaid military personnel. But, like our security shambles at top-secret laboratories around the US, the finely honed edge of the US military has been lost. We have become sloppy because no one seems to care.

While much of the blame is Clinton's for gutting the military and demoralizing it by simultaneously turning it into a global cop for hire and a laboratory for perverted sex experiments for politically correct sodomites, where was the outrage by the American people? Our military could have toughed it out with the Clinton morons, but the American people didn't seem to care either. Even the best can slack off when the people they have sworn to defend don't care that you are being systematically misused and abused.

Whatever the reason, most of the bombs missed. When Saddam was told that most smart bombs missed, he knew how incompetent the US high-tech military really is.

Saddam was launching an attack against Israel

Just how dangerous Saddam really is was demonstrated in an intelligence report by The DEBKAfile in WorldNetDaily on February 24. The report said that by February 22 "six divisions of Iraqi troops were massed near the Syrian border and U.S. intelligence officials had 'additionally picked up Iraqi preparations for launching long-range surface-to-surface missiles.'"

The US/British attack on Iraq wasn't a `routine' strike on radar installations as announced by the Bush administration on February 16. Instead, it was a part of an overall strategy to preempt Saddam from launching the real attack against Israel that had been in preparation for over a month. ( See Jan-Feb issue of Discerning the Times Digest ) "The allies had intended to preempt Saddam Hussein, following intelligence of his decision to launch missile attacks on Israel, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait," said the intelligence report.

Israeli forces were put on high alert and northern towns in Israel were warned to prepare for a missile attack. The report said US intelligence estimates claimed that Iraqi missile forces would have been ready to launch at Israel by 6 p.m. local time Thursday February 22, but Mideast sources said "a European government -- probably Britain" -- sent word to Iraqi intelligence that if missile launch preparations continued, "Israel would not again sit still and wait for Iraqi missiles to rain down on its towns, as it did in the 1991 Gulf War."

The threat was serious enough that the Israeli air force had prepared a preemptive strike against the Iraqi troops and launch sites using both conventional weapons "and with the help of small neutron bombs." (Bold added for emphasis) Neutron bombs are designed to emit a pulse of neutrons that kill every living thing (including microbes) within several square miles. While neutron bombs would be very effective on eliminating Saddam's six divisions, it would have meant the use nuclear weapons in war for the first time since World War II.

Saddam took the region to the brink of war. One hour before he stood down his preparations, US AWACS planes, along with four of their Navy counterparts -- A2C Hawkeye carrier-launched AWACS -- and 36 US and British fighters and bombers had taken off from bases in Turkey and from US carriers in the Gulf, enroute to Iraq's western desert. The joint US-British squadrons were joined by elements of the Israeli air force, said the report. The mission was to "flatten Saddam's surface missiles the moment [US AWACS] reported them operational." Even though that never happened, the Iraqi military took their missile preparations, "to one stage before [Iraqi President] Saddam's firing order."

The report said as the US and British planes flew over the desert on February 22, they "ran into fierce antiaircraft missile fire from [Iraqi] batteries emplaced north of the ... oil city of Mosul," noting that "35 missiles were fired," at the planes and the "allied fighters blasted the Iraqi batteries in return but caused very little damage." Again, the highly advanced, smart bombs failed.

Other Arab nations are also seeing an opportunity to recklessly exploit the weakened US ability. The DEBKAfile intelligence report had confirmed that Syrian President Bashar Assad had reached a "strategic decision" either to allow the Iraqi divisions to march through Syrian territory en route to Israel, to give his approval to Hezbollah terrorist forces to unleash a "long-range rocket attack against northern Israel," or both. The intelligence report also said "unusual Palestinian military activity" was witnessed "in the past 24 hours." DEBKAfile said its sources have learned that "a massive Palestinian terrorist attack may be programmed as the starting signal for a regional flare-up" and could explain the recent acceleration of terrorist attacks by the Palestinians in Israel.

The entire effort appeared to be a coordinated effort to test Israeli-US-British reaction. We can expect more such testing of the allied defense systems. But, it is also highly likely that an attack will really happen one day very soon. Saddam has already proven he will take blind chances. "The failed air raid strengthened Saddam's resolve.... Now, he is determined to go to war without delay, before Western allies reduce his missile-launching capability." (Bolding added for emphasis) Of course, the American people were told none of this in the mainstream press.