At the end of Gulf War One we found quite a bit of poison gas belonging to Saddam near the Kuwaiti border. In fact we had claims by our troops who were exposed to the poison gas containers. We also knew he had them because he used them against both the Kurds and Iran.
We knew at that time how much Saddam had because he told us. In fact at the meeting of his generals with Schwartzkopf the Iraqis admitted how much they still had. They agreed to destroy their admitted supply of WMD and give the United Nations proofs of that destruction.
In the 12 years that followed Saddam never claimed to have destroyed the poison gas he admittedly had. Saddam refused to present any evidence that he had destroyed them.
What the UN with Hans Blix was trying to do was find these known weapons. Last December Saddam was ordered to either tell the UN where when and how the WMD were destroyed or tell where they were stored so the UN could destroy them. Saddam was ordered to present this information in a written report. Saddam presented thousands of pages of Bull Crap.
If in fact he had destroyed those admitted quantities of WMD, he just needed to say where when and how he did so. If he had them, all he needed to do was surrender them. He would still be in power.
The other option is that he used them all against the Kurds and Iran. In that case all he had to do was show the records of his supply and when those weapons were used.
If in fact Saddam did destroy his WMD, why did he refuse to offer the proof he had done so.
The question is why would a dictator follow a policy that lead to his regime being destroyed if all he had to do was tell the UN what he had done with his WMD. Remember we know he had them... he used them at least twice. All he had to do was say, here is what I had, and here is when they were destroyed or used. The only logical answer is he hid them or sent them somewhere that he could not tell us.. even if it cost him his regime. Why didn't he tell us what had happened to them?