"Steve Hix" wrote in message
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Too bad for Saddam and at least some of Iraq's military leadership...
*they* thought that WMDs were there and available.

Whether that's true or not is unclear. It just as possible that Saddam knew
he had no capability and yet allowed everyone to believe he may have as a
regional deterrent because he didn't believe another confrontation with an
allied coalition was a possibility unless he provoked it.

Si