Iraq, WMD and warfare

The suspicions that Saddam Hussein kept deluding the world about his WMD programs in order to maintain his strategic position have proved to be true. He may have been a brutal dictator, but he was also a shrewd politician. When asked about why Iraq never used WMD in 1991 Gulf war he replied: "Do you think we are mad? What would the world have thought of us? We would have completely discredited those who had supported us.''

I think this proves further that Iraq was not (and most likely would never have been) a real threat to the United States. Israel perhaps, Iran definitely, but not the United States. So much for going to war to rid his regime of WMD. This adds further evidence that Iraq was more about the neocon dream of reshaping the Middle East than anything else.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/politics/07saddam.html