Don't know what to make of this Tierney guy, but undisputed on the tapes is talk of moving WMD related objects to another country. What country? Why isn't there interest in that?
Even Saddam's generals were expecting to use WMD on the invading army; the fact that he didn't have any took all of them by surprise.
Several UN inspectors have said that they went to Syria; we've all seen reports that Russia helped to organize the evacuation of these materials to Syria, and we've seen reports of the convoys crossing the border during the run-up to the war.
I'm not surprised that Bush's enemies don't want to talk about this. What mystifies me is why Bush doesn't talk about it. The two possible reasons are that, first, it would set us on a collision course with Syria, and he isn't ready yet...
Or two, that this was the most successful operation of the war. Saddam was convinced to voluntarily ship his weapons out of the country, and he was convinced by Putin to do it. It doesn't matter that Syria has them, because Syria already has tons of their own. What matters is that Saddam was denied their use at the moment he most needed them, and he was denied their use by his own decision, thanks to a game run against him by Putin and his "ally" in Syria, who sold him out, or maybe was an unwitting enabler.
Which might explain why Bush can't take credit for his greatest coup of the war, and also why, in his eyes, Putin can do no wrong.