Silat,
You can google for all this stuff I am about to talk about if you wish, or you can search this BBS for threads where I have previously posted links.
Saddam admitted to having certain amounts of various chemical weapons, facilities for making said weapons and X amounts of precursors plus various delivery methods.
UN weapon inspectors want to see the VX gas, Saddam tells them he dumped some of it out in the desert. When the inspectors ask to see the dump site, sure enough 2 different chemicals were found. Both are used in the production of VX gas, however, it takes 3 chemicals to make VX gas and there is NO trace of the 3rd chemical at the dump site. Iirc 1.5 tons of VX gas is missing. 1.5 tons of a chemical that takes one tiny drop to kill you.
After Gulf War 1 Saddam claims 550 artillery shells filled with mustard gas have been misplaced. How do you misplace 550 artillery shells?
Precursors for VX gas are missing, several hundred tons of them iirc. Saddam had no explanation for where those went.
More than once he sent the UN weapons inspectors packing, or refused to allow them access to various facilities.
Even the UN admits to these discrepancies.
We did find evidence that SH was trying to keep his WMD programs alive, evidence was found that small R&D teams were still working. This was on a much smaller scale than the intel community thought before the Iraq war.
We did find two terrorist training camps in Iraq, one in the north and the other outside Baghdad. We thought he was aiding terrorists and he was, although his links to Al-Qaeda are most likely non-existant.
How do you deal with a guy like this Silat? Bear in mind, we gave him over a decade to cooperate fully.
Bush declared war on terrorism after 9-11 and Iraq wont be the end of this war.
