NY Times opines this morning: Though the Hussein regime ended with the fall of Baghdad on April 9, many frustrating puzzles remain. These include the question of what happened to Iraq's unconventional weapons programs in recent years and what was going on in that shadowed regime in the last weeks before the war, when the Iraqi leader seemed reluctant to take steps that might have stayed the president's hand.
Really?
AP report from Nov 7: BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Saddam Hussein personally initiated an attempt to reach a last-minute deal with Washington to avoid the U.S.-led invasion that ended with the ouster of his regime, an official of the former Iraqi government confirmed Friday.
On Thursday a Lebanese-American businessman who said he acted as a go-between between Iraqi officials the Bush administration described how the Iraqis had offered to allow U.S. agents to search for weapons of mass destruction and promised oil contracts for U.S. companies in an attempt to stave off the March 20 invasion.
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