A few of you questioned my reasoning that Saddam was only bluffing his WMD threat in my last post. Admittedly, it looks foolish on the face of it, but there is an underlying logic. Hussein was willing to front the image of a wild, unpredictable rouque for his own security. Did it work? Perhaps well enough. It certainly gave Clinton second thought, even though his own words show that he was in favor of regime change.

But to back my conclusion up (/sarcasm), the Washington Post ran this article today:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25416-2003Sep30.html

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