[jwalsh07]

Oh and now it's my turn to ask a few questions.

What happened to the WMD stockpiles admitted to by Iraq?

Why is there no evidence or records of their destruction?

[Mr. Mojo]

Yep, nobody can answer those questions satisfactorily. ....And that's because there is no answer .......other than Saddam successfully hid them within he borders of Iraq (which we gave him ample time to do by messing around with the UN for months on end) or he sent them off to another nation (probably the Ba'athists in Syria). And hiding enough bio/chem weapons to wipe out countless people within a very small space is very easy to do, so there's a good possibility that our search will come up empty.

[Torie]

The inefficient government bureaucracy, probably just forgot where they went. Arab governments are not Germanic in their attention to paperwork you know. Or maybe, one agency destroyed them, or shipped them, and another agency did not know. Or maybe Saddam used them all up killing his own folks after killing some Iranians, and lied about his supply. Or maybe, they are all in Syria, or buried in the rose gardens somewhere in the Sunni triangle. So many possibilities, and well, while in this case there is time, none of it means a damn. The mass killer is on a final exit strategy. THAT is the only thing that really matters at present. The rest is all, while somewhat interesting, mere foreplay. Whether the foreplay was disingenuous or not, the good guys scored, and in this context, the final score is all that matters.

[Dave Elias]

"Oh and now it's my turn to ask a few questions.
What happened to the WMD stockpiles admitted to by Iraq?

Why is there no evidence or records of their destruction?"

A queer line of reasoning you have there. It seems that you would rather be vindicated at all cost. Surely the best result, maybe not for the administration but for the security of the general population, would be if the WMD didn't exist at all.

If they as you suggest have been sent to Syria and therefore potentially distributed to every mad Mullah with a few bucks to spare, then this is an horrendous scenario.

I hope to god that we were wrong, but I fear they may now turn up on the streets of New York, London or Tel Aviv. The invasion of Iraq could turn out to be the biggest own goal in history.

Have you actually considered this as a possibilty?