Yet it is safer and easier to replace deterrence with elimination of all WMD.
The WMD scam was an interesting sideline to it.
Some say the most convincing explanation of his WMD is, as Tariq Aziz once confided, to prepare for revenge against Iran.
We will develop and maintain the capability to reduce to the extent possible the potentially horrific consequences of WMD attacks at home and abroad.
Had sis told him there was no evidence of WMD, he might still have been justified in attacking Iraq.