SADDAM: WE HAVE NO WMD

Wingnuts like Stephen Hayes have been making a lot of noise about tapes and documents from the Saddam regime. Under the guise of freedom of informatiom, they will misuse the documents to show that Saddam did have WMD at or near the time we invaded. Of course, that is just another wingnut delusion:

Even as U.S. Invaded, Hussein Saw Iraqi Unrest as Top Threat

By MICHAEL R. GORDON and BERNARD E. TRAINOR
Published: March 12, 2006

Posing as military historians, American analysts interrogated more than 110 Iraqi officials and military officers, treating some to lavish dinners to pry loose their secrets and questioning others in a detention center at the Baghdad airport or the Abu Ghraib prison. United States military officials view the accounts as credible because many were similar. In addition, more than 600 captured Iraqi documents were reviewed.

In December 2002, he [Saddam] told his top commanders that Iraq did not possess unconventional arms, like nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, according to the Iraq Survey Group, a task force established by the C.I.A. to investigate what happened to Iraq's weapons programs. Mr. Hussein wanted his officers to know they could not rely on poison gas or germ weapons if war broke out. The disclosure that the cupboard was bare, Mr. Aziz said, sent morale plummeting.