George Piro, the FBI agent, who interrogated him was on 60 Minutes
Sunday to tell us that Saddam Hussein had no WMD, but pretended he did
to keep Iran from invading. Yet in the first four years following
the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq sought to do the opposite. It worked mightily
to demonstrate that all its banned weapons had been destroyed and
economic sanctions should be lifted. Between here, and the
citation below are some questions, and some answers.
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observations knock down two views embraced by Middle East experts after
the 1991 war that helped buttress Bill Clinton's do-nothing policy
toward Iraq -- that Saddam was "stupid" and that his foremost concern
was his own survival and the survival of his regime. Taken together,
Piro's three observations suggest that sometime in the future, when
Operation Iraqi Freedom is no longer a political football, Americans
will likely learn that Saddam was indeed a major threat and that he was
not idle in the 12 years between the end of the 1991 war and the start
of the second war. [Mystery of the WMDs]
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As an aside, why does everyone insist on abbreviating "Weapons of Mass Destruction" WMDs? It's WMD, ain't it?
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