[Uncle Miltie]

"What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last (1991) Gulf War (news - web sites) and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s," he said.

Suppose:

1) Saddam spent a decade opposing inspections, and obfuscating his capabilites, while producing nothing.
2) Our intelligence agencies interpreted opposition and obfuscation as the existence of an active program, which had probably produced weapons.
3) The intelligence was wrong, though not because they had an axe to grind, it just appeared that Saddam was up to no good, so he probably had WMD. This is possible. Saddam was nuts, and everyone thought he had WMD.

[MamaLucci]

There is no doubt that Clinton also believed Saddam had WMD. That won't stop the DNC and their willing accomplices in the press from screeching the "Bush lied" mantra from now until the election.

[FirstPrinciple]

Saddam had to pretend that he had WMD in order to stay in power. If word got out that he didn't, Iranians and the Kurds would have taken him down right away. It was his way to keep himself in power.