[mnehring]

So did they just go poof and disappear? Did Saddam, out of the goodness of his heart, destroy all his WMDs, but for some reason, failed to tell the UN & US inspectors because somehow he liked the sanctions? Did the 53 instances of WMD & banned weapon finds since the war started just magically appear out of no where?

[lucysmom]

So did they just go poof and disappear? Did Saddam, out of the goodness of his heart, destroy all his WMDs, but for some reason, failed to tell the UN & US inspectors because somehow he liked the sanctions? Did the 53 instances of WMD & banned weapon finds since the war started just magically appear out of no where?

No, they just didn't go "poof". Many were removed or destroyed by the weapons inspectors, some were destroyed by our bombing runs. Nobody knew how many WMDs Saddam had left or if he had any at all that's why the pressure to allow inspectors back into Iraq.

What 53 instances of banned weapons? The ones they thought they found before discovering they weren't weapons at all? They weapons that were under lock and seal, and guard until our troops moved through noting that they were still there and then left them unguarded to be looted by insurgents?

The fact is that weapons inspectors were allowed back into Iraq and they were doing their job; we did not need to take Saddam's word for anything.