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Saddam and WMD: Hussein ran the most successful deception operation since the XX Committee. He was convinced that Iran would invade and overrun Iraq unless it believed he had WMD. To convince Iran, he had to convince everyone. Think about why for a minute.

He was debriefed by an FBI agent and ABC News interviewed the Agent. To the best of my knowledge it only ran one time, on ABC, and at the US Army War College in Pennsylvania.

The housing crisis was indeed caused by him, but not for the reasons the popular narrative would have you believe. His goal was to increase black home ownership, and he used the Community Reinvestment Act to do that. The problem was that, unlike the cement administration, he didn't have the mainstream media covering his mis-steps.,

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