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The problem is that virtually the whole administration is acting like they were just "fooled" on the WMDs rather than standing up and saying "No, they were there. We know they were there, and if nothing turns up, that still doesn't mean they weren't there."

At this point, all I can think is that the Bush admin has concluded that until the election, Afghan/Iraq is all the nation will tolerate; and while we REALLY need to clean out Syria and Iran, there just isn't the public support there, even if we "discover" WMDs in Syria (courtesy of Saddam). It is a political reality.

Consider this: in 1942 we already had solid information that the Nazis were killing thousands of Jews in a systematic way. Imagine that the papers then were like they are now: in 1944, we go into France and Belgium . . . but no death camps; and in early 1945 we get into parts of Germany . . . but no murder camps. The public is saying, "Where are the camps?" In fact, most of the killing camps were not in the U.S. zone at all, but in the east, the Russian zone. Now, that didn't mean the camps didn't exist. It just meant they were in a zone other than where we thought we'd find them.

The question of the missing WMDs has nothing to do with this article, but has much to do with those who let the Chalabi led INC subvert established intelligence gathering institutions in act of supreme anti-patriotism that some dare call treason.

Will we discover Iraqi WMDs in Syria, I really wonder. I really can't shake the feeling it's downright strange Saddam didn't use them as a bargaining tool to gain asylum in another country.

Well, the cold and hard fact is, getting rid of Saddam was a perfectly valid political objective, WMDs or no WMDs. The hard part now is to organize some solid Iraqi power so as to not wake up in a few months and discover Al-Sadr or any other local tinpot dictator has established himself as a new Saddam.

I think there may be another possibility. What if Saddam did dismantle his WMD program - which may include burying it, secretly shipping it to Syria, etc? Saddam was still not cooperating with the weapon inspectors (although Hans Blix was just plain useless, then throw in whatever bribery was going on). Could Saddam have then been playing a bluff - to give an impression in the region that he still had active WMD's, ready to go? If he was indeed bluffing, then, HE LOST BIGTIME!