Iraq lied about WMDs - I thought so

Haaretz - Israel News - Saddam Hussein maintained pretense of chemical arms to prevent Israeli attack:
"'Many months after the fall of Baghdad, a number of senior Iraqi officials in coalition custody continued to believe it possible that Iraq still possesed WMD capability hidden away somewhere. Saddam attempted to convince one audience that they were gone while simultaneously convincing another that Iraq still had them,' the report says.
"Senior Iraqi officials told their interrogators that Hussein had no idea what the true state of the country's weapons was, because everyone lied to him and refrained from giving him bad news for fear of being executed."

As this report on a Pentagon study soon to be offered in condensed form in the establishment's flagship publication Foreign Affairs states, Saddam Hussein's regime kept up an active deception on the subject of WMDs to keep Israel, Iran and other regional powers off balance. Tragically for all concerned, he "misunderestimated" the resolve of George W. Bush to exact revenge for the plot against his family.