"We are seeing, I think, the systematic rehabilitation of Saddam Hussein's reputation. It is fast becoming the conventional wisdom on the left that Saddam was a benign, progressive dictator--sort of an Arab Fidel Castro. The airbrushing continues, perhaps, with the claim that Iraq never did have WMDs.

Still, it would be quite remarkable if the Danish intelligence service really said that Saddam didn't never had WMDs, since he used them repeatedly, both in the war against Iran and against his own citizens, and U.N. inspectors supervised the destruction of Saddam's "extensive CW [chemical weapons] arsenal" before vacating Iraq in 1998, while leaving large quantities of chemical and biological agents unaccounted for, according to UNMOVIC reports.

I suppose we could take a perverse satisfaction in Denmark's intelligence agencies being even more in the dark than our own, but I suspect the error is Editor and Publisher's, and represents just one more step in the MSM's attempted rehabilitation of Saddam Hussein."