[D-fendr]

We found out from Saddam after he was captured that his strategy was to make everyone - even his own people - believe he could and would use WMD. He went to great lengths to do so.

He thought this would keep us from attacking him.

[elhombrelibre]

That's a fact; we found out that even his leading military commanders believed they still had large stockpiles of chemical weapons. But we also found out there were chemical weapons there. What the Code Pink candidate, Donald Trump, doesn't know on this subject is amazing.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/03/world/middleeast/chemical-weapons-iraq-pentagon-secrets.html

[TexasCajun]

Saddam’s bravado was also aimed at Iran during their endless wars.