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Comment: Saddam's String of Misjudgment Senior News Analyst NPR's Daniel Schorr says that, strangely enough, Saddam Hussein may have believed -- as he reportedly believed in the first Gulf War -- that a casualty-averse America would not risk lives to wage war in Iraq.

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Senior News Analyst NPR's Daniel Schorr says that, strangely enough, Saddam Hussein may have believed — as he reportedly believed in the first Gulf War — that a casualty-averse America would not risk lives to wage war in Iraq.

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