The remaining delivery systems were more important than the chemical & bio weapons. Saddam’s records reveal that he kept the recipe for all WMDs in the files and did not destroy them.
Therefore, the issue was delivery systems.
1. Delivery bombs, missiles, etc., have been found again and again even though they were to be destroyed. Commenting on the age of the chemical inside them is silly. Of course it gets old. The issue is having the delivery device.
2. Terrorists are also delivery systems; especially suicidal terrorists. Saddam kept a number of them around, to include Al Qaeda sub-group led by al Zarqawi.
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