[HawaiianGecko]

Here's what I don't "get."  The IAEA, UNMOVIC and UNSCOM all documented that Iraq had X amount of WMD's.  These same groups could verify the destruction of Y amount of these WMD's, the difference (X-Y) yielding a positive number. Now, for silly little engineers like myself and I'm sure accountants around the planet, a statement like Iraq had no WMD's just simply doesn't make sense.

Both sides can nuance the daylights out of statements to indicate they are correct, but neither side can change the mathematics of the situation.

[Tarantulas]

That mathematical equation meant that some WMD were left over, no matter what these guys wrote in their report. It makes more sense to me to believe that the leftover WMD were flown or trucked out of the country, rather than everyone in Iraq from bottom to top was able to coordinate somehow to tell the exact same lies about nonexistent WMD.

Lefties want to discredit the war because there wasn't unbreakable evidence of WMD. A reasonable doubt, they say, should have meant we wouldn't invade. But that equation just won't go away, and with a reasonable suspicion that the madman possessed WMD, we had to take action to disarm him. There's no need to build elaborate theories like this one when we have solid international intelligence telling us that the WMD were there. So as others have said, this story sounds fishy to me too.

[lugsoul]

Many of the figures used as X and Y were estimates and/ or extrapolations. Such math will always be inexact.