[HP8753]

Repeatedly in the transcripts, Saddam and his lieutenants remind each other that Iraq destroyed its chemical and biological weapons in the early 1990s, and shut down those programs and the nuclear-bomb program, which had never produced a weapon.

Sounds like people who think they are being "bugged"

[NutCrackerBoy]

Repeatedly in the transcripts, Saddam and his lieutenants remind each other that Iraq destroyed its chemical and biological weapons in the early 1990s, and shut down those programs and the nuclear-bomb program, which had never produced a weapon. -libertarianPA

Sounds like people who think they are being "bugged"

They used to joke that Nixon on the WH transcripts while they were planning nefarious deeds -- "we could coverup X", once in a while one of them would inject "but that would BE WRONG"! Don't Saddam and co. deserve the same ridicule? The world is upside down.

[justa-hairyape]

Sounds like people who think they are being "bugged"

Possibly. Since we also have eyewitness accounts detailing how Saddam killed people who said things in meetings that he did not like, everyone in the room definitely took their cue from him. Heck the first thing the Baa-th party in Iraq did when they came to power was kill their political opposition.

This is my take on these transcripts, If early on in a meeting Saddam said there were no WMD, thats what everyone in the room said. Note in the above transcript I posted, they did not even want to talk about possessing WMD until Saddam had mentioned it. I did find an early audio transcript were they had basically agreed to never openly discuss WMD's. They were also worried about their nearby neighbors the Israeli's, who are legendary in their spying capabilities.