Hussein--if anyone cares to go back to 1995--was found to have buildings buried in the sand that had contained the bolt-patterns for a cyclotron. This was determined by inspectors from the US, I believe. Electric power lines simply vanished into the sand. That's how they found it. Probability is that he was separating fissionable material. So, I don't think it unlikely that he had the weapons--at least he had the material to make even ordinary bombs 'dirty'. I don't want to go overboard defending that piece of shite, but neither do I wish to whitewash the US or its motives for being in Iraq.