Jim Lacey at the Nat…

Jim Lacey at the National Review has a novel suggestion as to why we might not find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Perhaps the henchmen were trying to fool the boss.

Instead, his henchmen did everything possible to obfuscate the true WMD picture and to thwart any inspection teams. If they had nothing to hide, they sure worked hard at trying to hide it. What if they were not just hiding a possible WMD program from inspectors, but also hiding from Saddam the fact that no such program existed?

Outlandish? Maybe not.

It’s an interesting concept; the Iraqi government, having had so much money siphoned off by Hussein or used to pay off the Republican Guard or buy yet another palace, didn’t have the cash. But knowing what Saddam did to those who failed, they couldn’t say it wasn’t working. It would also explain why the intercepted orders from Saddam to his generals to fire chemical weapons was never carried out, not to mention the years of sanctions Hussein endured when he could have played the Good Guy to the UN and showed that he had nothing.

It’s all conjecture, of course, but Lacey shows how it would explain a lot of things. Worth a look.

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