We shouldn't forget that we are also facing weapons the Iraqis wouldn't have had if the sanctions against Iraq had been working.
But if the sanctions worked then they could be lifted and that would end the Oil for Food program that is lining the pockets
of the hacks at the U.N. and Saddam himself. If it was ever exposed that Saddam did not have the weapons that kept his people and neighbors in fear of him then he would have gotten two in the hat and that's the end of Oil for Food. The French convinced Saddam that Bush was bluffing. They were wrong.