Where are the WMDs?

The mystery remains as to where the WMDs are in Iraq? Saw this National Review item that was referenced by Andrew Sullivan.
Money paragraph:
In the event that we do not find the WMD smoking gun this is the only explanation that would make any sense. Saddam wanted the program and was willing to endure crippling sanctions to have it. However, his henchmen were unable to deliver and, unwilling to be on the receiving end of Saddam's zero-defects program, they faked it. In the process of making Saddam believe he had a functioning program they could easily have sucked U.S. intelligence into the deception. In fact, deceiving U.S. intelligence in this way would have been important to them. It would not have been conducive to a long life if the United States had come to Saddam and told him they had discovered he had no WMD program and all of his most trusted advisers were lying.
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Hmmm, any history buffs out there? Wonder what Hitler's scientist said to him about the progress of their rocket program (which they got working to some extent with V-1 and V-2) or nuclear program (the program was a flop)? Lacey's explaination would fit the facts as we know it at this point. Hopefully, some of the captured Iraqis will tell us what really happened.

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