[evad]

I can't promise a piece where Wolfowitz actually concedes that Hussein was not a national security threat. He isn't that dumb.

hmm..ok. What did you mean by this statement?

Wolfowitz was honest enough to emphasize this before the war before he was slapped down. The claim that a two bit medieval dicator like Hussein was a national security threat is laughable and I don't think that even the administration took it too seriously

[Captain Kirk]

Wolfowitz floated a trial balloon on counterweight justication. He never openly denied a national security threat. No politician would throw away a potential card which could be played later with the public! He was testing the waters to see whether the counterweight explanation would play in Peoria. It didn't....so all the arguments shifted to the more "scary" but less obviously Machiviallian WMD stuff.