Czuch:
> Saddam had WMD, and used them???? Funny, he never gave the UN any evidence that he ever destroyed the ones not used
> Maybe thats why we all thought he still had some

In response to your comment, the CIA did have evidence that Saddam had ordered the destruction of his WMDs in 1995. I would recommend looking at an interview with Ray McGovern, a retired CIA officer who claims that in 1995 Saddam's son-in-law defected and said that Saddam had ordered the destruction of all WMD sites in 1991 to avoid their being found by UN inspectors after the Gulf War.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wHTNQrcCTA

That intelligence was deliberately ignored and set aside in favor of the now infamous "Downing Street Memo". It is claimed that this document was a fabricated intelligence report. This report claimed that Saddam had WMDs aimed at Kuwait and Israel. Wikipedia has a good description of the events about the memo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_Memo

We must also remember that David Kay, the Bush administration's weapon's inspector at the United Nations, resigned because he had warned the Bush administration that that Iraq probably had destroyed all its stockpiles of WMDs, and Colin Powell chose to ignore him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Saddam_WMD_search

Ray McGovern did confront Donald Rumsfeld and had him on the ropes with the misuse of intelligence reports:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1FTmuhynaw

I think that intelligence was manufactured and that the decision-makers made a calculated risk. They thought that they could go to Iraq and find the WMDs after the war, even if they had no evidence that Iraq had any WMDs. Saddam was bluffing like he had done in the past. Then George W. Bush and Tony Blair called his bluff and were later confronted with Saddam having no WMDs. Since Bush and Blair could not prove that Saddam had anything, they manufactured intelligence to match war policies they had decided even before the 2000 election.

The US did have good reason to believe that Saddam had WMDs and that was because in the 1980s the US supported Iraq in its war against Iran. The Regan administration had sent Donald Rumsfeld several times to sign many agreements with Saddam Hussain. In the 1980s Donald Rumsfeld was CEO of AG Searle, a pharmaceutical company that sold to Saddam Hussain large-scale bioreactors that could be used to mnufacture anthrax and other biological wapons. Donald Rumsfeld knew that Iraq had that technology because it was his company that had sold it to Saddam. There is some famous footage of Saddam and Donald Rumsfeld shanking hands:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTldYbqlJc8

Colin Powell has admitted that the "burn notices" that should have been used to ignore bad intelligence were ignored. I think Powell's assessment was honest. The intellegence was believed, even if it was false.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTLmOoPzjs

We must not forget also the Hutton Inquiry which investigated the death of David Kelly, the man accused of fabricating the intelligence in the "September Dossier", a British intelligence report claiming that Saddam Hussain tried to acquire Uranium in Africa. The questions surrounding that dossier and the death of its creator have bothered many people who believe in a conspiracy within the Blair government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Inquiry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_David_Kelly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_Dossier

I think that we will not know the truth about the intelligence failures until after George W. Bush dies. All that information will remain classified just as his father's involvement in the Bay of Pigs invation in Cuba remains classified, and Henry Kissinger's personal diaries and papers remain classified. The reason is that men in power do what they want, and they if necessary they will lie to the public to achieve their objectives. This is true everywhere, not just in the US.