There is a point being missed with respect to WMD.

The trail as I understand it is as follows:

1. In 1991, Iraq committed to the verifiable destruction of all it's existing WMD's and to verifiable, total dismantling of the research and development programmes associated with those weapons. To facilitate the verification aspect, the UN placed inspections teams (UNSCOM & IAEA) in Iraq, to work with the Iraqi authorities. This required commitment to the intent of disarmament on the part of the Ba'athist regime and for its full co-operation.

2. Between the years 1991 and 1998 it became obvious to the UN inspection teams that within the regime in Baghdad there was no no intent to disarm and that the degree of co-operation being received fell increasingly short of what was required. Eventually inspections teams were withdrawn in December 1998.

3. The Inspection teams reported the status of their work to the UN in January 1999. That report detailed stocks of material, chemical and biological agents and munitions and weapons systems that they knew existed and that had not been destroyed.

4. Only after the goading of the UN by the current American Administration were inspection teams reinstated in Iraq operating under the terms of a new resolution. Very early on in the inspection process it was clear that full co-operation was still being withheld and that questions relating to the WMD's mentioned in point 3. above continued to remain unresolved. The UN knew of their existence in 1998, by December 2002 they may have been destroyed in the interim, but no conclusive proof was profferred on the part of the Iraqi Authorities, so the questions remained open to doubt.

5. Now, post deposition of the Ba'athist Regime in Iraq, the search for that material, chemical/biological agents, munitions and weapons, can continue. The greatest change now being that there is no administration prohibiting interviews that are open and intimidation free. There is no active deception programme in operation.

So, in actual fact, they don't have to find anything - they only have to establish beyond doubt what happened to them. If they were destroyed between the years 1998 and 2002 it makes the behaviour and actions of the Iraqi Ba'athist Regime appear to be bizarre to say the least, that is what leads me to suspect that this stuff has not been destroyed. There are a number of extremely rational explanations as to why it was not used during the conflict, but if there, it will be found.