BOTH parties were totally convinced about Saddams links to WMD, and had been
for years.

The chemical and biological weapons had known, predictable shelf lives. When
both parties were concerned about WMD in the late 80's, most of the weapons we
sold Iraq and those we knew they had developed in the early 1980's were still
potentially active.

Scott Ritter has made an excellent case that unless SH made new weapons that we
didn't know about, by the time GWB began thumping the WMD drum we knew darn
well the old weapons were no longer
effective.