Some of the documents uncovered by that Wikileaks stuff show WMDs in Iraq as well:
WikiLeaks docs prove Saddam had WMD, threats remain
by Seth Mandel
October 28, 2010
EXCERPTS:
... And although the anti-war left welcomed the release of the documents, they would probably cringe at one of the most significant finds of this latest crop of reports: Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
...documents reveal that for years afterward, U.S. troops continued to find chemical weapons labs, encounter insurgent specialists in toxins and uncover weapons of mass destruction.”
...In August 2004, American soldiers seized a toxic “blister agent,” a chemical weapon used since the First World War, Wired reported. In Anbar province, they discovered a chemical lab and a “chemical cache.” Three years later, U.S. military found buried WMD, and even as recent as 2008 found chemical munitions.
...In 2008, a Pentagon study of Iraqi documents.... more than 600,000 captured original documents and thousands of hours of audio and video recordings–proved conclusively that Saddam had worked with terrorist organizations that were plotting attacks on American targets around the world.
... The New York Times reports that just prior to the United States lead invasion, Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein informed his top generals that he had destroyed his stockpiles of chemical weapons three months before their war plans meeting.
According to the Times report, the generals all believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and were counting on the WMD to repel the oncoming coalition invaders.
Obviously, Saddam Hussein would have liked to have nuclear weapons, but he didn't, and no one ever thought he did.
The extension of the term to include chemical and biological weapons was a late development. Saddam had chemical weapons, without doubt, but his BW program was apparently a fantasy.
My view of the whole Iraq debacle was and is that it was a mistake, and worse than a mistake since it was a proxy war (we needed to kick some Arab ass) to avoid engagement with the real enemy.
Iraq never rated more than a punitive expedition, and for what became the mission (occupation and reconstruction), the forces deployed were inadequate by orders of magnitude.
Whether Saddam had useable chemical munitions in March 2003, or didn't, was a minor matter, certainly not one to justify 4400 dead, 30 000 maimed, and $4 trillion pissed away.