I know we are in the middle of a debate about 9/11 and not Iraq WMD, but I had an opportunity yesterday to hear someone plugged into the WMD debate. To review, we were massively wrong about the state of Iraq’s WMD capabilities. The nuclear program was a pale shadow of what Saddam had had in the early 1990s. On chemical weapons, there was research and development, but nothing that was usable. On biological weapons, there was research into how to better weaponize anthrax, but again, nothing that was usable. It was Saddam’s missile program that was most active, and most disturbing in what it said about the possibility of Iraq leaping ahead in its WMD programs. The missile program was almost entirely dependent on a network of foreign assistance. If Saddam had gotten comparable foreign help in other areas, he could have made leaps ahead in his capabilities. But that hadn’t happened. So why were we so wrong?