i was responding to some of the claims made on this thread which involve speculation about the actual meaning of this specific document (as opposed to the translation of the words in the document).
saddam apparently modeled himself consciously on stalin. all of the people working closely with saddam would probably know basic stalinist disinformation techniques. anybody could have written this document for any purpose.
i think it makes a lot of sense to translate such documents. however, it isn't me that's running ahead on this--i think the claims made about the meaning of the document are running ahead.
what seems weird to me is that people seem to think they know what this document really means. there seem to be all sorts of possible interpretations, and i think that trying to claim that a specific interpretation is the correct one, is jumping ahead of the evidence.