[Peach]

Ditto that Carolinamom.

I absolutely cannot believe they weren't there. Too much intelligence they were there. They can't ALL be wrong.

If Saddam didn't have any, he sure miscalculated letting the UN back in to prove he didn't have them.

[Eva]

You know, we did hear rumors that Saddam did not have these weapons, but the rumors suggested that Saddam knew it and didn't have the guts to admit it because it would have been such a loss of face. His retention of power was based on fear and the fear was based on a lie about the depth of his power. (I can't remember where this story came from that we discounted it so completely, probably agence French presse)

That said, Saddam did have WMD programs going and the capability to produce the WMD in a very short time period and this is really what he did not want revealed.