“No one from the intelligence community, anyplace else ever came in and said, ‘What if Saddam is doing all this deception because he actually got rid of the WMD and he doesn't want the Iranians to know?' Now somebody should have asked that question. I should have asked that question. Nobody did. Turns out that was the most important question in terms of the intelligence failure that never got asked.”
— Stephen Hadley, President George W. Bush's national security adviser, speaking at a "Foreign Policy" confab last week on the U.S. invasion of Iraq, launched 10 years ago this week.
