Sullivan has sure changed his tune, regarding the above (Sullivan was celebrating Bush's actions in Iraq long after the WMD's turned up missing), when he freaked out over the proposed anti gay marriage constitutional amendment, and now he's just spinning. Sullivan's comment above is simply polemical BS, and I can't believe Sullivan isn't smart enough to know it. Everybody, including the usual suspects, the Germans and the French thought Saddam had WMD, and tried to cajole Bush to just be patient, and Saddam would eventually give them up (and meantime the French could continue to feather their nest).
Indeed, Saddam himself may have thought he had WMD's and just didn't know he had been defrauded by his underlings, and the allocated money had gone into their Swiss bank accounts. That was my original theory, and I'm sticking to it. It is the only explanation that makes sense of Saddam's actions.
I have nothing nice to say about Andrew Sullivan so I will refrain from saying what I really think.