Syrians have had plenty of their own WMDs for decades, including during a variety of Democratic administrations, and they've never been used.
People have begun to assign some sort of mystical unique significance to the Iraqi chemical program. The Syrian program was just as advanced and they have their own production facilities cranking out quite a bit of a variety of agents including nerve gases every year.
If the reports are true this isn't the case of a nation that never had WMDs before suddenly getting WMDs.
That really does nothing to the case that Iraq sent part of their weapons to Syria.
They certainly did. My personal guess is that some, at least, of this material wasn't being sent to Syria as much as it was being returned to Syria.
That said, it won't matter to the propagandists in the MSM. For the last three years they might have been asking what happened to the stuff that the UN had already discovered but that we haven't located yet. I'm kind of curious about the 10,000 liters of anthrax slurry, for one. Story One is that it was treated with a chemical, transported to the desert somewhere, and dumped. Story Two is that it never existed in the first place and that the UN inspectors were either mistaken or lying. Neither is especially likely, IMHO.
There is only one operating criterion within most of the MSM these days - "does this story make Bush look bad?"