Don't you think he had an obvious source for his prior belief that Iraq had WMD? Pillow talk with his wife the WMD expert, maybe? It boggles my mind that these people would rather do anything to promote Democrat power than to do the right thing to protect and legitimize America itself.
YES, that's something I speculated about long ago on a similar thread when we were talking about 2-3 other appearances and articles between Oct. 2002 and March 2003 in which Joe Wilson expressed a rather high degree of confidence that Saddam had and WOULD USE a variety of WMDs. Where did Wilson derive his high level of confidence that Saddam still had WMDs? BEFORE the war Wilson's argument was not that the whole WMD issue was overblown, it was that Saddam would USE his WMDs if we attacked, so better to pursue what Wilson called "muscular disarmament" which was supposed to have a credible threat of force to make Saddam comply. However, due to all the Euro-crapweasels such as French leaders saying they would NEVER support a use of force, the whole "muscular disarmament" program was dead from the start.
Anyway, yes, I do seriously wonder how the husband of a supposedly leading WMD expert with the CIA's team tasked with that subject had such confidence that Saddam did still retain WMDs.... part of the gross dishonesty of the libs, especially Wilson, is that they have so distorted the whole public discussion of WMDs and Iraq.... and they claim to be the ones so concerned about deliberative democracy, etc.