I was emailed this link by by cousin freestyle back in Northern Ireland.
It's taken from the Guardian, which tells the poor story of an American side of a massive war games, which resorted to cheating in order to WIN, even when most of the US expeditionary fleet in the Persian Gulf was sunk within the first few days of the exercise (using surprise and unorthodox tactics), bringing the US assault to a halt!
At the height of the summer, as talk of invading Iraq built in Washington like a dark, billowing storm, the US armed forces staged a rehearsal using over 13,000 troops, countless computers and $250m. Officially, America won and a rogue state was liberated from an evil dictator.
What really happened is quite another story, one that has set alarm bells ringing throughout America's defence establishment and raised questions over the US military's readiness for an Iraqi invasion. In fact, this war game was won by Saddam Hussein, or at least by the retired marine playing the Iraqi dictator's part, Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper.
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