Were there weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? That is the question many are demanding an answer to. There was no doubt during the Clinton administration and after the 1st Gulf War when the UN required dismantling Iraq's weapons programs and inspections to verify they complied. Saddam constantly played cat and mouse with the UN and they were never able to fully ascertain he had fully disarmed. The fact is, the inspection teams as well as the rest of the world believed he had not.
Suddenly with the Bush administration there was a turn about in the thought processes of world leaders (well, at least the more vocal ones) and they began to defend Saddam.
To date there have been no smoking guns found in Iraq. There have been plenty of indicators, mobile weapons labs, chemical weapons capable missiles and shells, pieces of equipment necessary to produce nuclear weapons and so on.
Still, we haven't found the actual goods. Many of the peace-nics and Bush detractors are crying "foul!" They say Saddam had none of the claimed WMD. Many are calling for investigations Their question, "what went wrong with the intelligence" and "did Bush lie?"
A better question would be, "what did Saddam do with it (WMD)? Where did he send it and to whom?" Further, why were our intelligence services gutted during the Clinton years, leaving us with very minimal Humit (Human Intelligence) on the ground at a time when we desperately needed it?
I've no doubts that sooner or later we will learn the answers to those questions, to our dismay.