Funny, but I STILL don't see any terrorist links or WMD stockpiles or discovery of plans to transfer WMD to international terrorists?

To be more accurate, you haven't seen any evidence that you are willing to believe, apparently assuming that defectors are all lying, that plans and equipment found carefully hidden either are irrelevant or have bizarre alternate uses, and that the vast amount of intelligence from several nations over several years was all mistaken, or bald-faced lies.

Does anyone wonder why, of the pages and pages of intelligence information the anti-Bush crowd focused solely on the Nigerian uranium? Of the pages and pages of intelligence information from Britain, the anti-Blair crowd focused almost exclusively on that single 45 minutes? All the rest of the data is ignored, waved off, or even worse, not acknowledged at all. They're picking easy shots, and hoping nobody looks anywhere else.

I honestly don't understand how you think or reason in this regard. Your method of arriving at conclusions seems to be a lot more linear than mine, which doesn't say one or the other is superior, but explains why we keep swinging past each other.

You completely dismissed the MIGs buried in the sand. I found the discovery of supersonic jet fighters buried in the desert, unsuspected by almost everyone, highly significant. A "trout in the milk," as Thoreau put it. These planes were not trashed, or dumped, but painstakingly hidden in a way that made them almost impossible to find, and obviously intended for future use when the heat was off. In Gulf War 1, Saddam flew his weapons to Iran, and later regretted it. Apparently he hit on a better method.

It was glaringly obvious to me that he would probably apply the same technique to anything else he wanted squirreled away for a few years, and that although this would make finding other such things quite difficult, it implied that it was premature at best to conclude absolutely that these other things did not exist. Finding plans and equipment for nuclear research buried carefully in a back yard strengthened this view in my opinion, and you dismissed that as well.

I find it quite plausible, considering what we have found so far, that we have simply not found everything yet.

Your scenario is that no weapons, production facilities, or plans to produce such weapons, exist in Iraq or elsewhere. It assumes that Saddam secretly and unilaterally disarmed himself completely in the past few years, or even the past year, while deliberately giving the impression in the face of the U.N. and an invasion force offshore that he was still armed and dangerous.

My assumption is that he hid a lot of evidence, destroying only that which could not be hidden, with the full intent of reconstructing his programs when everyone, specificially the U.N. and U.S. intelligence, went home. I don't think he believed until the last minute that we were going to chase him out of Baghdad, and even then, he probably assumed he could lay low and make a comeback later. He'd done it before. And all the stuff would still be there.

I'm sorry, but your scenario isn't any more plausible than mine is, and in the face of Saddam's behavior patterns, I would say mine is even more plausible.