There has never been a satisfactory explanation for what happened?

DJ Cosmolicious

Uh, other than those pre-1990 chemical rounds, nada. Saddam might have enjoyed creating the illusion that he had an active WMD programme, but it turns out he didn't. Much of the intelligence was flawed, and it was known at the time that it was flawed.

When then-Secretary of State Colin Powell got up in front of the UN and revealed the intelligence about the mobile biological weapons labs, that came from a source on the CIA's burn list, meaning someone who the Agency believed had no credibility (in his case, he failed his poly, and his information could never be corroborated with another source), an agent codenamed CURVEBALL. Analysts in the Agency's Directorate of Intelligence tried several times to remove the flawed information from the reports being prepared, and were blocked by Bush political appointees higher up in the chain.

The reports of Iraq attempting to buy yellowcake from Africa were false as well. Their programs never got off the ground again after the 1990 Gulf War, and many suspect he preferred to let his neighbors think he had active development programs, rather than reveal the hollowness of his military. He took his brinkmanship too far, obviously, but Saddam was never the brightest star in the Arabian sky.

tanner_1122

I'm sure there are some that are buried in Iraq
some that were sold and put into containers and shipped out
some that were diverted to Syria, Iran and other Saddam friendly countries

bumpocooper

They are with the tooth fairy and santa claus because they never existed in the first place

TayKitBak

Oh, let's beat the dead horse some more.

Our troops are there. Shouldn't we be more concerned with getting them OUT?

DC D

They found mustard gas, it was about 10 years old, but they still found it..

And if Saddam made it then if not for the US and Britain invading Iraq, he could have made more and used it

No, and there never will be. If there were, they would have been used against US troops. And contrary to what some Republicans here might believe, we didn't go into Iraq for mustard gas leftover from the Iraq-Iran war.

sweetflower

I must agree with mefromparadise. Weapons of mass destruction was just a coverup for Bush because he wanted to go into Iraq to fulfill his father's vendetta against Saddam. Hey, as long as it's not his daughters and it's our minorities overseas, it doesn't matter to him, right? The result, thousands killed and a much more unstable middle east than ever. We're obviously not making anything better for ourselves or our so called altruistic efforts to democratize Iraq.

mahs89

syria

STEVEN F

History lesson: At the end of Dessert Storm, Saddam admitted to having WMD's and agreed to produce and destroy them in front of UN inspectors. The lack of a satisfactory explanation of what happened to the WMD's is as much of a reason to invade as the WMD's themselves.

The_Dark_Knight

Noname and fluffdadddy.. perhaps you don't read the news or don't read it completely. Pentagon has said publicly that the 500 mustard gas containers were many years old and they were SOLD TO IRAQ by the US to fight against Iran and they were NOT the WMD that the US govern were originally looking for.
See, the government said this, no one made it up for you. The government said that THOSE 500 CANS WERE NOT THE WMD THEY WERE LOOKING FOR. So why don't you knuckleheads learn a bit about the world around you before you say something.
Besides, even if they had that mustard gas, how were they going to use them on the US? They would lob it over like a grenade? They don't have any missiles, so you must have an explanation of how they would have sent the nerve agents over. Idiots. Just die already.

MikeGolf

We found them a d destroyed them.

In fact this is an example of a US President choosing the greater good over what will benefit him politically. If his predecessor had done the same then we would not be at war right now.

idontkno

iran have them

fluffdaddy

500 war heads loaded with nerve agent. Does that count for anything. Oh, and have you searched Syria yet? Besides if they found nuclear bombs in Saddam's underwear, the libs would still oppose any kind of military action. There is no point in arguing with you guys. Maybe if we gave every radical Muslim a hug they might like us.

mefromparadise

Remember your bed time stories? WMD was a bed time story for us grown-ups. Just to help us sleep better and have a clearer conscience.

Meeshell

This is just a theory but maybe they did find them and are going to use them. So they didn't tell anyone.

NONAME

You libs keep singing the same old song even though your question has been answered ad nauseum. Facts never get in your way, you just refuse to acknowledge what you don't want to believe. Once again...others have answered it here...we found 500 rds buried. If he buried those 500 chances are he buried more. Multiple intelligence sources indicate he shipped much stuff to Syria prior to the invasion...a fact supported by former high ranking officers in his own air force. Look, you can continue to deny all you want, but you will never understand the truth until you are willing to open your mind.

The_Dark_Knight....Well here's a few facts for you from the "complete" story:
In early 2004, Dutch officials discovered five pounds of yellowcake uranium ore in scrap metal imported from Iraq.
In subsequent months, the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) found parts of banned al-Samoud 2 (SA2) missiles shipped around the world as â€œscrap.â€
In April 2004, Jordanian officials seize 20 tons of WMDs from al-Qaeda containing 70 different chemical agents, including Sarin and VX gas. King Abdullah announced on April 17 the stockpiles originated in Iraq. If detonated as planned, they would have killed at least 80,000 people.
The following month, Saddam loyalists fired a â€œchemical binary projectileâ€ filled with Sarin gas at U.S. troops in Iraq.
In early 2006, Gen. Georges Sada, the number two man in the Iraqi air force, told American media outlets that Saddam Hussein buried some WMDs in concrete underground bunkers in Iraq; others he shipped or airlifted to Syria with Russian assistance.

Maybe you should follow your own advice and try to learn a little bit about the world. I've seen some of your other posts and your science is faulty also Mr. Rocket Scientest. i think you need to go back to school because you must have forgotten a few principles of physics. I'm not ready to die yet...I'm having too much fun picking off intellectual lightweights like yourself.

r.azen

Another history lesson: OF COURSE SADDAM HAD WMD. Back in the eighties we gave them to him to fight his thing with Iran. Back when he was America's golden boy in the Middle East.

One of his generals, an Assyrian Christian by the name of Sada, wrote a book called Saddam's Secrets in which he details how Saddam got most of his WMD out of Iraq before we invaded. Unlikely to be able to verify his claims, but they make sense. There was never any question as to whether or not he had them, because like I said before, we gave them to him. The real question is, did he use them all, destroy them all, or hide them all?

I figure he did a little of each.

boukenger

Nope.

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