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"UUUUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHLLLLLMMMMMMMM!!!!!"
As a nude Diana was withering in pain on the concrete floor of her prison, her future was being decided by Saddam as he lectured his war council on the inevitability of his victory. He had been very disappointed by the failure of his propaganda broadcasts to energize an anti-war movement in the United States. Although he had provided numerous films to the American media featuring Diana Barker and four male pilots confessing to bombing hospitals and schools and professing eternal support for the "brave Iraqi People," nothing had happened. In fact, public opinion had turned against him as a result of the films. Even the initially favorable American Media had turned against him. It was clearly impossible to understand these people. Fortunately, he had an even more brilliant plan. It was inevitable now that the Americans would attack and that his army would be defeated. But, if he could bloody the imperialists before his army's inevitable defeat, he could still emerge as the Arab hero. To do this he had to have one successful battle and then prevent his army from turning on him in their defeat. The key to doing these two things lay in controlling General Hamid Rashid, the popular commander of III Corp and his army's best commander. Saddam silently congratulated himself on his foresight in not ordering one of those helicopter "accidents" for Rashid which had befallen the other heroes of the war with Iran. Now Rashid was available to win him his one victory. But the man still had to be made so unacceptable to the Americans that they would never support him if he tried a coup in the war's aftermath. From his extensive dossier on the general, Saddam knew that the General was a sadist who had tortured to death for his own gratification several Kurdish women captured by his troops. He would send Rashid the American female pilot. The gift would cement his loyalty in the short run. Then evidence of the General's sadism, collected by his spy in the man's headquarters, would give Saddam the means to destroy him after the war. As his subordinates wisely agreed, the plan was brilliant.