Sometimes hear the mantra that President George W. Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction and Iraq. My belief is that President Bush believed what he wanted to believe and what Saddam Hussein wanted us to believe. Hussein, of course, also wanted Iran to believe that Iraq still had weapons of mass destruction. These sure showed up a lot in the very long Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.

There was a very interesting 60 Minutes segment on a FBI investigator who was interviewing Saddam Hussein and trying to get him to open up not through the often futile method of torture but my gaining his trust and playing off of Hussein's ego.

Believe that the interviewer managed to get Hussein to admit that there were no weapons of mass destruction when we attacked Iraq but that Hussein was planning on re-implementing his inactive programs in this area.

On the issue of Bin Laden, Hussein said that he thought Bin Laden was a zealot and not to be trusted or something to that effect. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/...n3749494.shtml

Originally Posted by Taltarzac

On the issue of Bin Laden, Hussein said that he thought Bin Laden was a zealot and not to be trusted or something to that effect.

Interesting. And yet we hung Hussein and still cannot find Bin Laden because our attention was diverted to Iraq. Guess that was just another George W. Bush "oops!"

Originally Posted by chelsea24

Interesting. And yet we hung Hussein and still cannot find Bin Laden because our attention was diverted to Iraq. Guess that was just another George W. Bush "oops!"

We did seem to go after the lesser of the two evils of Hussein and Bin Laden. Much of the media back when the war against Iraq started seemed to be very much into the fight though.