Seems like I heard that sort of statement over and over during the whole period leading up to, and then during, the war. No crow feast yet. If it comes, it may well end up being a real suprise to those who end up attending it. If there are any cards waiting to be played, it's time to show them. Not doing so will leave me feeling like I've been lied to, manipulated, and conned.
Being a bit impatient aren't you?
Saddam only had 12 years to develop and hide stuff!
And he was certainly evasive !
Are you saying he had nothing to hide?
Saddam has used chemicals on Iraqi citizens, many, many times during his 30 year rein.
When Tony Blair said to the UN that it wasn't in disupte Saddam had WMD but only what to do about it, you could have heard a pin drop and NOT ONE national leader stood up and said Saddam DIDN'T have WMD. Everyone knows he had them at one point.
All the dithering around for months gave Saddam ample time to transfer them to another nation or sell them to terrorists.
Human rights organizations have witnessed the use of WMD on Iraqi people.
NYT author Judith Miller and many, many others have written books and seen the chemical factories about this very subject. We have satellite photos of previous use and storage and manufacturing.
Suppose you learn that in the days just prior to the war Saddam's regime either destroyed the WMDs (e.g. dumped them into the river), hid them somewhere, or smuggled them into another country such as Syria. Would you still feel this way? We can't find Saddam, either. Would you conclude, using the same "logic," that therefore someone lied to you about his existence, or manipulated or conned you into thinking that he existed?
Then we would have all been consistantly conned since 1998. That's when the UN released their report that the weapons of mass destruction existed in the quantities referenced by Bush. It was also the basis on which Clinton, and the democrat congress, decided to bomb Iraq. Where do you suppose those known stockpiles went? Do you really think Saddam disposed of them AFTER the weapons inspectors left? Do you really think Saddam bribed the weapons inspectors because they knew he disposed of them? Do you think Saddam refused to reveal he disposed of the WMD's because he really wanted us to come in and depose him?
You'd really have to have some kind of convoluted thinking to believe you were lied to.