The US Softened Up Iraq With Email

Here’s a strange story from Slashdot. Richard Clarke, the former counter-terrorism advisor to the US National Security Council, revealed that the US sent personal communications over the Internet to Iraqi senior officers:

Dear Colonel al-Ogedi,
We’re about to invade. We’re going to overwhelm you and if you resist us we’re going to kill you. But we don’t want to do that. So really the best thing for you to do when we invade is to go home.

All the best,
The US Armed Forces

I added the salutations. I approve. After all, if it did motivate a bunch of Iraqi soldiers to stay home, then that was fewer for the Americans to kill. I pity the poor bastards whose spam filters erroneously blocked that email.