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To: rich evans who wrote (152233)	12/22/2005 7:02:47 AM
From: Bridge Player	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793927

Rich, there is an aspect of the WMD-in-Iraq controversy that I have not seen discussed on this thread. Or anywhere else, for that matter. It is a theory concerning why nearly all the intelligence agencies in the world, including our own, were convinced during the years leading up to the Iraq war that Saddam was actively developing biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. The theory goes that the intelligence agencies believed this because Saddam himself believed it to be true. . I first saw this mentioned somewhere in the media shortly after the Iraq war began and our troops were not finding much if any such materials. Some stuff used to make anthrax is about all I can remember, and even that may now be discredited. The theory goes that the scientists in Iraq were so frightened of Saddam's thugs and policies, that they kept reassuring him that they were indeed making progress on WMD for fear of their lives and those of their families, should he find out that such programs were far from producing what he so obviously desperately desired. I am not saying that I buy this theory, and indeed it is largely speculation. But something must have caused such widespread beliefs in the US and among most of the rest of the world, including most of the UN, a fact now conveniently ignored by the left. And knowledge of the fear of the man that was widespread in Iraq at that time certainly gives a certain credence to the idea.