Payoff - For two months,

Payoff - For two months, Israel's Debka, the "Drudge Report of the Defense world", has been reporting that US, UK, Australian and Jordanian special and psyops forces have been engaged in trying to get Iraqi units primed to surrender en masse when the balloon goes up.

Today - according to NPR via Jay Reding, it may be working. The report is uncomfirmed, of course, but gives us hope that we can avoid some of the bloodletting that happened 12 years ago.