It can't be any worse...
...than the source for your Sunday Mirror article asserting that the U.S. was negotiating with Saddam for his surrender.
As for "weapons programs" versus the weapons themselves, what good are they if you aren't producing the weapons anyway?!? The phrase "weapons program" is an appropriately nebulous one intended to obfuscate the fact that Mr. Bush emphatically stated Saddam had hundreds of tons of chemical and biological weapons that he didn't really have. Anything can be a "weapons program" if spun the right way.