Daniel Pipes discusses the great mystery of the Iraqi WMD and concludes, simply, that Bush didn’t lie, Saddam did. Pipes cites the “riveting book-length report issued by the Pentagon’s Joint Forces Command, “Iraqi Perspectives Project,” [caution: large PDF file] and notes that it “shows how, like Hitler’s Germany or Stalin’s Soviet Union, Saddam’s Iraq was a place of unpredictably distorted reality.” Basically, everybody in the military lied constantly to prop up the boss’s deluded sense of power. Eventually, Saddam realized his posturing would invite a coalition invasion, but by then he had boxed himself in, and his efforts at cooperating with the UN seemed like just another ruse.