Also, there was the question of why, if Saddam didn't have WMD, he behaved exactly as if he did, vis-a-vis inspections etc. Answer, revealed much later: he never thought U.S. would invade. Then, too, there is the very real sense in which he himself was a WMD. Just ask the Kurds.
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Seems like the biggest factor was Saddam feared looking weak to Iran.
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And I would add that it seems unlikely in the extreme that they would knowingly walk into one of the biggest embarrassments to an administration in history.
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