[FlatulusMaximus]

This hints at something that nags at me to this day: I recall that Saddam went to considerable lengths to convince the world he HAD WMD, even alluding to a nuclear weapons program. He defied numerous resolutions demanding weapons inspections, so what were we to think? The thought of him with nukes was bloody serious, and I reluctantly supported W’s decision to invade. I agree that afterward we completely screwed the pooch.

[lepton]

This hints at something that nags at me to this day: I recall that Saddam went to considerable lengths to convince the world he HAD WMD, even alluding to a nuclear weapons program. He defied numerous resolutions demanding weapons inspections, so what were we to think? The thought of him with nukes was bloody serious, and I reluctantly supported W’s decision to invade. I agree that afterward we completely screwed the pooch.

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He did more than hint he had WMDs. He turned over tons and tons, eventually allowed sampling of tons more, and we found new binary weapons systems awaiting their loading with the chemicals. It is one thing to claim things were not handled right. It is simply delusional to claim he never had them as many now do. The real question that remains is what happened to those he declared, multiple nations sampled so they could be tracked, were secured in closed facilities, and were no longer there after the war.

We did find that many of the expected programs were actually being subcontracted out with funding and manpower to Libya, but he still had plenty of materials that just disappeared.