Saddam Confessed to Fabrication of WMD

In a strange twist to the ongoing debate about the American invasion of Iraq, NBC reported last night on the newly released book "The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack" by New York Times best-selling author Ronald Kessler. In his book, Kessler reported on an "FBI agent who extensively interviewed Saddam Hussein and found, among other things, that the former Iraqi leader had deliberately tried to 'fool the U.S.'" NBC told its viewers, "Saddam Hussein told his American captors that he so feared Iran, he wanted Iranian leaders to believe that he had nuclear and biological weapons. So he planned to fool the U.S. by, among other things, stalling U.N. inspectors to make it appear he had something to hide, weapons of mass destruction or WMD. But he hoped the post-Gulf War sanctions on Iraq would dissolve, allowing him to pursue a nuclear capability."

Saddam also confessed to killing hundreds of thousands of Kurds. When Saddam and this FBI informant finally said goodbye, Saddam reportedly teared up and cried like a baby.

Sometimes information like this helps us understand why Bush and his Republican and Democratic allies did what they did in 2003. Perhaps they were wrong, but hindsight is often 20/20. History is proving that Saddam called America's bluff, and unfortunately for him, the bet didn't pay off.