Reports from Iraqi defectors stated that the stuff was being moved around.

From what Charley says the reports seem to infer by the use of "were" that this stuff was moved into Syria sometime between discussions starting up regarding the new resolution and inspection teams actually starting work. The activity could explain why Iraq was so reluctant to allow U2 surveillance flights earlier, it finally conceded that these could take place but by that time the stuff could already have been out of the country.

This gets more and more puzzling. If I'm understaning this, we get reports indicating that Iraq has moved it's WMD to Syria but rather than investigate this, attack Saddam over WMD that we have reason to believe he no longer posses?

Jon