I have said all along that something isn't adding up, but the obvious conclusions some people are jumping to make no more sense.

To assume the Bush administration lied about the whole thing is ridiculous. The number of people who would have to be in on it in the military, intelligence network, Congress, and elsewhere is legion.

To assume the Bush administration and intelligence community was somehow fooled is more plausible, but not by much. The information gathered was extensive enough that if the intelligence community was in fact duped, one would have to assume that Iraq was deliberately trying to convince the world it had WMD, despite the fact that it put the regime in mortal danger. Why?

The British report on this subject can be found here. Powell's report to the U.N. can be found here.

While some of the items in these reports are certainly based on assumptions, the assumptions are reasonable given the evidence available and Saddam's past behavior. On the other hand, parts of the reports like the uranium purchase from Africa, have been found to be erroneous (although other recently-found evidence indicates someone in Africa did offer such materials, no evidence found to date indicates that Iraq took them up on it.) On the gripping hand, other parts of the report are almost impossible to interpret any other way other than that Iraq had an active WMD program of some kind.

If they were there, where are they now? Like you have said, an important question. Rumors place them in Syria, or even buried in Lebanon, but those are rumors, with no evidence.

Saddam had plenty of time before the attack began...heck, before the INSPECTIONS began...to handle anything incriminating that was laying around.

Almost every underground facility so far explored seems to have been thoroughly stripped.

Were the weapons destroyed? Moved? From where? To where? Were their scrubbing and isolation technologies developed to the point where no detectable evidence at all would be left behind? Seems unlikely.

I know for a fact that unless something went horribly wrong with their cleanup and concealment procedures, that no WMD are going to be found buried in a local ditch, or laying around in a warehouse. Which is why I haven't gotten too excited about barrels and such. Unless someone who hid them speaks up, we may never find them.