The New York Times reports that Saddam Hussein has revealed “nuttin’ much” under interrogation, but I found at least one thing he said to be very significant:

From his partial answers to questions about the recent war, intelligence officials said they came to believe that Mr. Hussein was surprised when the United States began its invasion in March 2003.

One official said that Mr. Hussein had implied that ambiguity over whether his government possessed illegal weapons “would keep the neighbors at bay, while the U.S. would be hung up in interminable debate at the U.N.”

Isn’t this proof of Saddam’s strategy, that he never planned to prove he had destroyed his WMDs, whether he did or not? Isn’t it clear that he never intended to comply with the U.N. resolutions, and that he recognized violation of the resolutions would mean justification for a coalition invasion?