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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
People here have wondered why Hussein didn't make clear that he didn't have WMD. The Duelfer Report suggests an answer I like mine, but that makes even more sense:
- Based on the interrogations, it appears that Hussein underestimated how seriously the United States took the weapons issue, and he believed it was vital to his own survival that the outside world — especially Iran — think he still had them.
It was a strategy, Hussein has told his FBI interrogators during the last 10 months, that was aimed primarily at bluffing Iraq's neighbor to the east.
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Heck, that was my guess way back when. The M.E. is a bad place to seem disarmed.
etft -- t.s.
