This isn't going away any time soon, no matter how quickly some want to sweep this under the rug. And if these weapons actually did exist, shouldn't we now be equally, or even more worried about who would have them now as we were about Saddam before the war?

Pressure grows in the hunt for Iraqi weapons">

KEY QUOTES:

"While the major combat has ended, one of the war's main goals — disarming Iraq of any weapons of mass destruction — has yet to be achieved."

"Before the war, the Bush administration pressured U.N. inspectors to question reluctant Iraqi scientists as part of the hunt for weapons of mass destruction."

"But those involved in what is known as "site exploitation," aren't interviewing the hundreds of Iraqi scientists whom U.S. officials have said would be the key to finding any banned weapons."

"The U.S. made such an important point of getting the U.N. to talk to the scientists, and the fact that we seem, in a certain sense, not to be following our own advice is perplexing."

"U.S. officials now say the weapons are either well hidden or were destroyed in the run-up to the war. There is no firm evidence they were moved to other countries, they say."