False pretenses! False pretenses!

okay, let's start from the beginning here.

bad intelligence:
okay, if intelligense is false, there's a big red light on each paper thet brightly glows indicating that it isn't to be trusted, amirite?

forewarning:
if it's announced on public television that tomorrow, the police will be inspecting your house for illegal substances, and you've got say, weed, wouldn't you be getting rid of it?

how long would it have taken saddam to bury his WMD's in the massive, bland desserts like the victims of his mass graves?

oh, and also, let me point out my rage against the yellow journalisim that only lets out the ABSOLUTE worst news frim iraq. whens the las time you heard anything positive out of there, and think of this: is it because there is none, or because it doen't have the eyeball-retaining shock value news channel sponsors crave?

he could have been starting to get them

Manufacturing deliverable chemical and biological weapons is no small endeavour. Where are the facilities? These things are almost impossible to hide from someone taking samples, even if you try.

hide, or even destroy them, and then damaging america's credibility and maybe gaining some for himself.

Which would achieve him what? He's stuffed either way.

Given the dearth of weapons found, I think it's a simpler explanation that they were simply never there to begin with.