Damn good point. One we'll never see discussed much.
To make things worse, even some factions in the governments of western nations, including ours, were ready to let Iraq have its way and cited Iraq's WMD capability as a reason to justify letting Hussein do what he wanted. It was "too risky," they said, to act against Hussein.
I'm still waiting for all those high tolerance, hideously expensive aluminum tubes to turn up as cheap disposable rockets. Blixie said they were for making rockets, not for centrifuges. Funny how we have not found all those "rockets" or at least the tubes.
The Iraqis had ordered and taken delivery of huge amounts of tubes, yet so far there's been no sign of them. (We only interecepted a fraction of those shipments by the time we got wind of what Iraq was doing.)
Not the proper analogy. What if you were a cop and wanted to search someone's car for drugs. That person then told you that you had no right to search his car for drugs. Would you then arrest the person, take his car and forcibly conduct a search? What would your reaction be after no drugs were found?
Yes, and I'm sure that if we find no evidence of WMD's in Iraq we can use that line to win votes in 2004. /sarcasm