The 2003 Iraq Survey Group report by Charles Duelfur reported that no significant numbers of WMD were found. They did report that Sadam likely had retained the intent and means to reconstitute WMD after sanctions were lifted. They were, of course, actively bribing UN and foriegn officials to achieve that goal (with UN oil for food money)and most agree that sanctions were degrading more rapidly than the WMD just reported in a newly unclassified document. In my view, the WMD issue was always 2 fold..new WMD production since 1991, which has not materialized. But of signifiacnt importance was the documentation of destruction of pre 1991 WMD. Thousands of sarin filled shells and thousands of liters of anthrax were never accounted for (as required by UN resolutions and the terms of "surrender" in 1991. Sadam reported that all were destroyed. He lied..
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/Iraq_WMD_Declassified.pdfSenior officials report more are being discovered and that many more likely exist. Recall that 3 Sarin filled rounds killed >5000 Kurds in a single village attack. I wonder what else Sadam lied about? There exist credible reports (from Isrielli intel, US satellites and a former Iraqi air force general) of air and ground truck conveys moving toward Syria in the pre war runup. There are millions of pages of captured Iraqi intel documents..some recently tranlated refering to Al Qaeda/Iraqi intel meetings. And millions of square miles of sand left unsearched...
I bring this up to point out that 3 years after the invasion, we still do not know the whole Sadam story. I have maintained that we know he was a mass murder (300,000+), a sadistic torturer, that he tried to kill 2 heads of state (including a US President), shot at US warplanes, that he had corrupted the US funded Oil for food program and bribed the UN, that he funded Hamas & Hezbolah suicide bombers, had several terrorist training camps on his soil, and was a destabilizing influence in an unstable region. We now know he lied about WMD. So, perhaps the next talking points lefty that says Bush is a liar, torturer, and mass murderer will at note that Sadam..did it first.
PS..I must again say that creating a democracy in Iraq was perhaps the best STATED reason to invade (even if it was not the most QUOTED reason).
