http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/oct/28/20041028-122637-6257r/?page=all#pagebreak
Bush never made a big deal about it. He either approved or had a motivation to just let it go because it wasn’t actually a big deal to him, or had knowledge that there wasn’t really anything to it.
“Now we have to invade Syria to get the WMDs that were moved there” might have been politically and militarily counter productive to what he was trying to do in Iraq?
Freegards
I wondered if the US gave Russia time to get the stuff loaded up and out of there on purpose. The Russians didn’t really want to have Saddam use them and likely decided to diffuse the situation by taking them before Saddam could try.
There were reports later that the US and Russian program to
desgtrroy their own WMD fell behind... maybe because they were destroying someone else’s too?