And other revelations from David Kay’s report. : Fred Kaplan in Slate dissects the President’s insupportable propaganda about the Kay Report proving that Saddam Hussein was a threat. Furthermore, the report supports the conclusion that the UN inspection process was what kept any weapons development in Saddam’s Iraq at bay. “Saddam wanted and, in some cases, tried to resurrect the weapons programs that he had built in the 1980s, but that the United Nations sanctions and inspections prevented him from doing so.” In answer to skeptics who wonder why, if he had no weapons, he would not cooperate more fully with the inspection process, it has already been pointed out that he most likely felt he needed to keep up the pretext that he had something to hide in order to keep his neighbors afraid of him and maintain his strength in the regional balance of power, as well as to guard his national pride.