While Saddam's major weapons systems fell apart, or were spirited away, he still had ONE MILLION TONS of small and crew-served weapons in thousands of ammo bunkers all across the country. That's probably more than the US military could ever lay its hands on. It's also more than his decrepit military could ever use.
So why did his spend his hard-stolen oil dollars for those weapons? Probably for the same reason he tried to hide his WMD programs: to go back into business as the islamic world's pre-eminent military power, and supplier to terrorists, once the UN lapdog inspections were over.
Too bad the general public doesn't see pictures of these stockpiles. We have been finding them ever since the war began. Reading about them and seeing them are very different, as the prison pictures prove. I realize that the leftist press doesn't want the public to know about them, but I don't hear mention by conservative politicians either.