I'll give it to you in one line!
Because he moved them out of the country during the TWO YEAR span and SEVENTEEN resolutions the UN gave him..........HOPE THIS HELPS!
It wasn't a two year span, it was almost four years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2167933.stm Apparently the UN resolutions did work b/c Iraq had no WMDs.
As for your fantasy-laden speculation that Hussein spirited the weapons away to another country....whatever fits your storyline hmmm? Why not just state that aliens from space took the WMDs--you have roughly the same amount of proof for both arguments.
Once you War-party people get your hooks into a fabricated script, well, you just don't let go.
Bush used manipulated intelligence as 'evidence' and you still believe the fairy tales to this day. When does critical thinking enter into the fray?
1. Bush's own Iraqi source for info said the WMDs were destroyed. Too bad Bush just cherry-picked the parts of the defector's testimony that fit his script that Iraq had WMDs and left out the "Iraq had no WMDs" stuff.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=28252. Biological WMDs have a short shelf life. Nuclear WMDs cannot be moved without leaving a trace: "...the extreme unlikelihood that ongoing work related to research and development of a nuclear weapons programme would not leave a trace, even in minute amounts, of certain half-life isotopes that would surely be susceptible to detection by the latest highly-touted, ultra-sensitive instruments employed by the IAEA inspectors..."
http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/ikhadduri.htmDavid Kay (Bush's handpicked guy) didn’t attribute the absences of stockpiles (of weapons) to their destruction or transportation to another country, Kay found that they were never produced and hadn’t been produced since 1991.
3. The weapons inspectors from '98 concluded that Iraq destroyed nearly all of its weapons by the time the inspectors left the country.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,351165,00.htmlEvery source is screaming "NO WMDS" but Bush's cherry-picked intelligence was used as evidence to lie this country into an unnecessary and illegal war.