[Torie]

Nope. The best explanation is that everybody thought Saddam had WMD, the British, the French, the Germans, and the Russians. Heck, maybe even Saddam thought he had them. The issue was how best to get him to give them up. The issue was whether to leave the US sitting in the sand indefinitely, while Blix flounced around, which was not an option. That combined with our other concerns about Saddam, as a force for conflict in the middle east, for his harboring of terrorists, and for just plain humanitarian reasons, was a more than adequate basis for taking him down.

[lizma]

maybe even Saddam thought he had them. The issue was how best to get him to give them up.

Does he even know where they are?? They have a habit of killing anyone "in the know". Uday and Qusay might have been in charge of hiding them and Saddam knows nothing.

As far as WMD it makes no sense that a tyrant would just plain give them up. To think so is just an ignorant leap of faith I'm not willing to make.