The administration has a vested interest in not finding WMD at this point, or at least not disclosing their existence. Why? Because if we are going to send our boys into harm's way again, can you imagine the public outcry against it if they might be met with biological weapons and chemical weapons, or even nuclear weapons? It was in the interest of the administration to tell everyone they were in the process of making them, but not to actually find them.
I think the first gulf war showed that there may have ben Chemical weapons released into the oil field fires. Of course, I have no proof of this, but it makes me wonder if this is the reason the administration was too quick to admit that they did not exist.
Also, if they were taken to Syria, then this creates another pressure point in which the public would demand that we go into Syria to get them, but I don't think we are ready for that. After all, they would say that if we needed to get them from Iraq, then we need to get them from Syria.
Back to the future with CNN
http://www.cnn.com/US/9704/16/cia.gulf/
(Article deals with Kamisiyah ammo dump demolition in Gulf War 1, possible US exposure to nerve agents)
Right, and also Bush would be blamed for not getting them before they were shipped off to Syria, and every day since for the fact that they're still there, or who knows where, held by who knows whom, who will do who knows what with them - his political critics would have a field day.
At this point it's probably much better for national security purposes if the whole world (including Syria - I think they ARE there, btw) believes that we think they never actually existed. Bush takes a hit, but like a previous poster pointed out, he's more concerned about security than poll numbers. I think we'll get them eventually.
Two things:
a) When our boys were marching
toward Baghdad. they were
ordered to wear their gasmasks
and outer protective garments.
Our Generals thought WMD were
at the ready.
b) Recall that huge storage facility
that was found out near the airport
loaded with sealed crates, tagged
with foreign (French and Russian names).
Three days later the facility was bone
bare and non one knew what happened to
to them. Our soldiers were blamed for
the "lost" contents.
I have never been able to buy the story
that NO ONE SAW ANYTHING being moved,
especially since it was reported that
the vast amount of supplies/crates would
have necessitated around the clock work
to empty the place. It was that vast.