re: What were you expecting?
"it was the threat of WMD being eventually distributed to terror networks that was a main concern"
In that case, didn't any advisor or strategist warn against the pre-emptive war being the cause of that threat, rather than the sanctions and surveillance being its consequence?
If those WMD's were to have been sent away, whom would Saddam trust enough to give them to? No other Arab leader had any sympathy for Saddam.
Raoul