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"If Saddam thought he had WMD, he did." "They were all terrified of Saddam and new he would cut them to pieces if they were caught lying."
Get the IIP report and read it in detail. Much of what it contains we have read elswhere. My statement does not propose in any way the Saddam regime did not have every intention of resurecting all it's wmd programs once sanctions where lifted. They very cleverly fooled many people into thinking they gave up on the stuff, while hiding stuff, and re-arranging many a facility to look like things where stopped. They in fact had stuff still at some of the mil sites when our Army and Marines invaded and start moving about the country. We have evidence remaining chemical pre-cursors where still stored in situ adjacent to various type artillery and mortar shells. We found syringes, vials of atropine,gas masks, and chemical suits laying in bunkers containing live ordnance, in some cases binary shells, with associated special loading tubes (1 meter long grey with a number of stop bronze stopcocks brazed on the ends, used for loading binary shells), etc..
And I have since I joined this web site, endlessly repeated this things to doubters.
So perhaps my wording indicated I don't believe they had the stuff and where going to use it. Hell the MiGs buried in the sand with special sprayer systems where not meant to spray crops. And the lists go on.
What I was appealing to is the IIP report does bring out some quite interesting things about how Saddam would demand something to be done. Then everyone would go along with his "fantasy", or lose their heads.
The IIP report really is worth the read.

"Then everyone would go along with his 'fantasy', or lose their heads."

Yes, that did also happen, but I tell you, Saddam is not insane in the sense that he's incapable of differentiating between reality anf fantasy. THAT is what the b@stard media is trying to get yo to believe when they talk about Saddam only imagining he had a WMD program while his generals went along with it to stay alive. Most of Sadam's generals are/were as evil and sadistic as he. He DID have a WMD program. While some parts of it min=ght not have been as EXTENSIVE as Saddam believed, they existed. Some parts of it WERE as extensive. I still say he was leaning on dual use chems to get around the sanctions. "THOSE?? THOSE are just drums of INSECTICIDE!!" (insecticides based on nerve gas; undiluted they kill EVERYTHING - I've had enough training in the use of the safe use of pesticides)

Now remember drums of "harmless pesticides" stored with chemical warheads. "It's just a FALSE ALARM!! 'Harmless' pesticides, that's all. Just Bush trying to justify his war for oil!! Did I mention Dick Cheney ran Halliburton...?" Think sacks of castor beans and threats of ricin attacks. "Well, just castor BEANS are harmless enough! Nothing to see here! Move along people!!"