[kidd]

Wow.

Its worth reading the whole thing folks. You probably already know 90% of this, but this fills it all in and ties it together.

And it was written by a democrat (who admits having trouble giving Bush credit)

I, for one, had always wondered why WMD weren’t used (I had suspicions). The following confirmed my main theory:

“According to US and British intelligence, a pair of retired Russian generals was sent to Iraq to deliver the bad news to Saddam. At the very end of 2002, the Russians persuaded a reluctant Saddam that CW and BW, while useful in massacring civilians, would have no impact on the well-equipped American and British forces. Leaving the weapons stockpile lying around would only confirm to the world that the Coalition had been justified in invading Iraq”

[Just mythoughts]

“According to US and British intelligence, a pair of retired Russian generals was sent to Iraq to deliver the bad news to Saddam. At the very end of 2002, the Russians persuaded a reluctant Saddam that CW and BW, while useful in massacring civilians, would have no impact on the well-equipped American and British forces. Leaving the weapons stockpile lying around would only confirm to the world that the Coalition had been justified in invading Iraq”

I do not recall the Russians being identified but I do recall we chased some all the way to Syria.

[tarheelswamprat]

“According to US and British intelligence, a pair of retired Russian generals was sent to Iraq to deliver the bad news to Saddam. At the very end of 2002, the Russians persuaded a reluctant Saddam that CW and BW, while useful in massacring civilians, would have no impact on the well-equipped American and British forces. Leaving the weapons stockpile lying around would only confirm to the world that the Coalition had been justified in invading Iraq”

This was the SOP implementation of a Russian contingency policy called "sarindar" wherein questionable materials were to be removed from client states during crises to avoid incriminating the Russians.