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cause it didn't matter, and people would have to be shut up. it's far easier to not find anything, and talk your way out of it and change the subject, than it is to get yourself out of being accused of planting the weapons.
sure, planting them would yeild quick and convenient results, but down the line, should it ever be exposed, shit would hit the fan like no ones business. not having any in the first place, or finding old and unusable weapons, is just enough 'proof' to feed the media and destract them long enough for something else to happen and reshift focus.
plus, now, however farfetched the excuse that those small stock piles of inertcyanid gas are, they're a better argument that there were WMD's at all rather than if we planted them ourselves.
when thinking up bullshit, it's better to go with vague reasoning and rational, than fake reasoning and rational. vague you can spin, fake you can't, at least not so far.