Thanks, Tom, for reprinting a large part of Bush's SOTU. I'd forgotten not only the breathtaking scope of Bush's false claims, but the crackpot conspiracy-theorist "logic" of it: Lack of evidence is proof of a coverup and therefore proof of the conspiracy.

The job of the inspectors is to verify that Iraq's regime is disarming. It is up to Iraq to show exactly where it is hiding its banned weapons, lay those weapons out for the world to see, and destroy them as directed. Nothing like this has happened.
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biological weapons sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax -- enough doses to kill several million people. He hasn't accounted for that material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it.
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more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin -- enough to subject millions of people to death by respiratory failure. He hadn't accounted for that material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it.
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500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. In such quantities, these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands. He's not accounted for these materials. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them.
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30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently turned up 16 of them -- despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their existence. Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these prohibited munitions. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them.
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several mobile biological weapons labs. These are designed to produce germ warfare agents, and can be moved from place to a place to evade inspectors. Saddam Hussein has not disclosed these facilities. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them.

108 UN inspectors said "nope, no weapons of mass destruction here". Thousands of US inspectors, backed up by nearly 200,000 combat troops, have said "nope, no weapons of mass destruction here". And now Bush, his minions, and his partisans, are spinning ever-more-rarified conspiracy theories to explain it. The WMD were destroyed so completely that not even a few molecules remain to be sniffed. Or maybe they were smuggled out of the country right under our noses as we massed our troops at Iraq's borders. Or somehow, beyond all reason, they're still there, but rendered invisible by an Iraqi cloaking device.

Or maybe they just didn't exist. William of Ockham would put his money on the simplest explanation.

The defense of Bush has entered the realm of the clinically insane.