In the Iraq Survey Group’s September 30, 2004 report (the Duelfer Report), group head Charles Duelfer said: ” ‘In Saddam’s view, WMD helped to save the regime multiple times… He believed that during the Iran-Iraq war chemical weapons had halted Iranian ground offensives and that ballistic missile attacks on Tehran had broken its political will.’ ”
– Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence, Page 337