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Easy:
Davin L. — (archived)

"If Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, why did the Iraqi regime behave exactly as though they did? Including going to war instead of fully cooperating with the U.N.?"

Iraq was a paranoid stalinist-like state. Suppose someone did this to Stalinist Russia... How do you think they would have reacted?

On the core- Iraq probably believed balls to bones that this was all an evil conspiracy to get them... I am sure Saddam believed that.

And it was never about him having WMD, I now think. I think it was about him showing he was Alpha/smart/powerful... It was about, like so many dictatorial states, power and obfuscation.

And I think he thought that as long as everyone believed he still had WMD, nobody would invade.

We may yet find WMD, but certainly not in the quality and quantities we believed or were led to believe, as is evident now.

Davin

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