With regard to the rest of the WMD claims, I've always suspected that we didn't *want* to prove that there were chemical and biological weapons anywhere in the the thousands of munitions depots spread around Iraq. Do that, and suddenly its a race against time to find them before Al Queda does.
When the story of no-WMD was being reported, it was only days after the fall of Baghdad. We didn't even know where all the munition bunkers were yet.
Beats me... but I want dibs on the credit if it is ever declassified. :-)
"With regard to the rest of the WMD claims, I've always suspected that we didn't *want* to prove that there were chemical and biological weapons anywhere in the the thousands of munitions depots spread around Iraq. Do that, and suddenly its a race against time to find them before Al Queda does."
An excellent point, and a reason I had never thought of until you mentioned it. If so, I wonder how many other Bush 'meekness' problems could also be related directly to these security issues.