"beardedB, the only thing to gather from yours and clint's post is that neither of you know squat about what saddam thinks or doesn't think."
That's pretty much right. I was dumb enough to try to answer bb's statement "Let me know when you figure out why he did not (appeal to the UN)" and I tried to figure out why he wouldn't instead of seeing that "why" is beside the point. I stepped right into it. Explaining someone else's motives is a guessing game. I'm not as clear-thinking as I'd like to believe and I lose my Zen and get led astray every once in a while.
I should have said
No WMD's were found before or during the war, Colin Powell's report was only a series of assertions( he has since expresed regret that he made that report), and Saddam used no WMDs in the war, nuclear, chemical or biological and so, in my judgement, he had none. The recent report bears me out.