Exactly! It is in so many other people's interests (UN/Anti-American crowd) to say these weapons were removed after we took Baghdad...when in fact, the amount of time that Bush was demanded to negotiate provided adequate time to remove these weapons.
I'm sorry...but I just can't picture convoys with "tons" of material trekking through Iraq, unmolested, during the war. After all, we are talking about heavy equipment that would've easily been spotted by our survey groups. With a nearly 8-month gap between our warnings to Saddam and the start of this war...there are a lot of materials that could've left Iraq.
I believe that the NYTs may now believe that Saddam did have WMDs; and that they (along with others) are now going to do their best to blame Bush for what they'll call the proliferation of these weapons as they defelct attention from their gross incompetence...which included giving Saddam this additional time.
While I am sure that some material was still being looted during the war...it is beyond belief to think that Saddam wasn't removing material with the several-month warning we gave him. In fact, I'm sure this additional time granted Saddam was a prerequisite from those nations that did business with Saddam...as it gave them time to remove the very evidence that would've tied them to Saddam. Anyone remember the Russians and French who were still in Iraq as the war was just starting? I don't think they were there for Sun and sand.