WMDs, don'tcha know? 🤡
The NY Slimes ran with the story in 2014 detailing the injuries to US servicemen who chanced across the caches of mustard agent and sarin. The Slimes later published the US intelligence report on the events, released under FOIA. It's even been noted on Wikipedia that "the total number of munitions discovered since 2003 had climbed to 4,990...."
The Daily Beast later reported that Bush administration insiders claimed that it was Carl Rove's idea to cover up having found the weapons for fear it would spark an Muhammadan terrorist scavenger hunt to find others the US might have overlooked.
If you want to argue that "4,990" isn't adequate to be real WMDs, now you're argument falls apart as just splitting hairs.
That’ll NEVER happen again.
In the end the War in Iraq was NEVER about the belief that Saddam was working on nukes or additional biological or chemical weapons, it was about his defiance of the will of the international community to inspect and confirm for themselves that Saddam had no such programs.
That was a stalemate that could only ever have had one of three outcomes:
#1. Saddam admits IAEA inspectors and gives them free and unfettered access.
#2. America and her allies blink.
#3. America and her allies invade Iraq so they can see for themselvces once and for all what Saddam was willing to take such a disproportionate risk to keep hidden.
It was the same game of brinkmanship he had played against his neighbors for decades. Only this time, Dubya called Saddam’s bluff and it cost him his kingdom and his life.
And good riddance to bad rubbish.