This just mystifies me. The whole world had known for 12 years that Sadaam had WMD! The Democrats and the liberal press makes it sound like the whole idea of WMD was born from the fruitful imaginations of GWB, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice, et al. In fact, the UN passed the sanctions and all those resolutions, and sent weapons inspection teams on the intelligence developed by the agencies of SEVERAL nations, and because the fact that Sadaam actually USED chemical weapons, both in the Iran-Iraq war and against the Kurds.
The only reason there is questioning about this is that the Democrats have twisted what the President said in his statements about the war, and the media has repeated the lies, ad nauseum.
There they go again. The sloppy logic of WMD. Everyone knows that Iraq had chemical weapons 12 years ago. The whole world also knows that the US supplied those for use against Iran.
Subsequent to the 1991 cease fire, Iraq agreed to destroy those weapons. We never knew for sure what happened but since there are none now, the most probable explanation is that he did destroy them sometime between 91 and 98. It is really hard to imagine that our intelligence was so poor that our government could really believe all those precise numbers of sarin, vx, etc.
Beyond the poor intell, we know that were definite lies concerning the nuclear part of the threat. No Niger purchase, no aluminum tubes and no excuse for mistakenly believing that. If you put aside your undying support for Bush and think, you will come to the conclusion that we were lied into a war that was not any benefit to the US. We need to figure out who lied to whom and how to get disentangled quickly so we are at full strength if there is a real need for military might in the near future.