Holly molly. Think I need to get some more moonshine. The reason they could not remove the chemical WMD was because the facility was bombed during desert storm. The bombing made the bunkers too hazardous to enter.
Here is a typical example of one of the type of bunkers they had to seal with cement.
![](https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/iraq_wmd_2004/images/ch5_anxB_img13.jpg/image.jpg)