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That's true. For someone who comes across as calculating as Hussein, you'd think there's hidden motives to his behavior if he really didn't have WMD anymore. Perhaps it was a matter of megalomania, Saddam believing himself king of the world because he'd been able to get away with his behavior for so long. Believing the public outrage with the war on Iraq would help, or even save him.

Or, perhaps he really did have WMDs and was moving/selling them. Perhaps things didn't work out as he planned, he waited too long with allowing inspectors back in and decided to let things just run its course.

The thing that irks me though, is that the Bush administration was far from sure of the threat of Iraq - rather the opposite. Even finding WMDs now can't change that.