I agree with your skepticism... It makes you wonder where the tens of billions of dollars in the "oil for food" scam went -- it couldn't have just gone into those stupid palaces. My guess is there is still substantial WMD buried somewhere in Syria. But even if these suspicions prove to be false, how can the John Kerrys and other Dem critics fault what was a generally held assumption given the decade of deception that WAS Saddam Hussein? The civilized world needed the removal of Saddam, and sadly, the US (along with Britain) was the only country with the ability and leadership to tackle that task.
Somehow, only part of my post printed: I meant to say "and we found 140 jet planes buried in the desert, from the Gulf War, that we had never seen, so think how easy it would be to bury some cannisters of bio weapons or some drums of chemical weapons. The Iraq Survey Group only looked at 5% (!!!) of the potential sites before concluding no WMDs were there.