| We know he had them. It's well documented that he used them. All he had to do was turn them over or provide evidence that they were destroyed, and he didn't do either. The US started pushing for an invasion roughly six months before we went in. Six months is a long ass time and I'm sure he didn't just sit on the stash. He had all the time in the world to remove them, so it's no surprise there was nothing left when we got there.
The only major screw up I've seen was putting too much stock in WMD as the major motivation for war. Now all the anti-war folks have something to bitch about and can divert attention for all the great things that have happened in Iraq.
The push for war was urgent mostly because of weather, and partly to prevent Hussein from being fully prepared to fight, not popularity. Being able to fight in 80 degree weather instead of 125 is a big motivation to go in and get the job done. |