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Then what were the WMDs Clinton was trying to hit with missiles in the 90's and the UN weapon inspectors looking for?

Different ones, not the same weapons used in the Kurdish attacks in the 1980s.

You actually don't believe there were any WMDs?

Ask General Powell ... He confidently predicted that there was hundreds of tones of the stuff. Scott Ritter said that there had been stocks of chemical weapons, but that they were destroyed by 1997. Tony Blair said that Iraq could launch an attack on the UK within 45 minutes. Everyone has their own story.

"Then what were the WMDs Clinton was trying to hit with missiles in the 90's and the UN weapon inspectors looking for?"

Different ones, not the same weapons used in the Kurdish attacks in the 1980s.

No kidding. You mean he wasn't trying to destroy weapons ALREADY used up on the Kurds?

"You actually don't believe there were any WMDs?"

Ask General Powell ... He confidently predicted that there was hundreds of tones of the stuff.

Actually the UN documented the supposed stockpiles of WMDs Iraq had, as did the intelligence agencies of several nations. Powell wasn't alone.

To date there has been no discovery that does not look like a residual or low-level effort growing out of what went on during the time before the Gulf War or when (pre-1998 U.N. inspectors) were still inspecting Iraq," Cordesman said.

He offered several possibilities:

—Without U.S. intelligence spotting them, the Iraqis destroyed their weapons programs, either in a deliberate manner in the 1990s because of the inspections, or perhaps in a panic before the recent war.

—The Iraqis hid the weapons so well that U.S. weapons hunters still cannot find them, a prospect Cordesman regarded as unlikely given the months of searching by U.N. and U.S. representatives.

—The Iraqis reduced their efforts to small-scale research programs, with plans to ramp up activities once U.N. penalties were lifted. Any production lines were never activated before the war.

—The administration has found some evidence of more widespread programs but is keeping it secret despite international pressure to justify its invasion of Iraq.