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The WMDs haven't been found on purpose.
Let me explain.
The major reason that we got into this war, as it was sold to the US public and to the world, was to find and destroy Saddam's WMDs. As long as those WMDs are not found, we have a legitimate reason to still be roaming across the country at will, poking our noses into whatever we want, and basically doing anything we damn well please. Even Iraqis acknowledge this: ' "We will not have any contact with the Americans," says spokesman Sheikh Adnan al-Shehmani. "We don't want them to stay. Now they have got rid of Saddam, when they have found weapons of mass destruction they should leave." '*
Once we have found the WMDs, many Iraqis will demand we leave, many Americans will demand we leave, and many other people of the world will demand we leave. For the time being, however, we are still carrying out our mandate of finding and destroying the WMDs.
Our searching for WMDs is just a smokescreen. Why? A few ideas.
1. To give the transitional government more time to stabilize the country before handing it over to the Iraqis, perhaps even finding Saddam, thus assuring a long term government more to our liking.
2. To give special forces more time to carry out strikes against terrorist holdings that the public knows nothing about.
3. To give US corporate interests time to entrench themselves in the rebuilding of Iraq, especially the oil interests.
4. To keep a large military presence in the area and thus pressure Iran, etc.
5. Some other plausible scenario (plausible given the right mix of cynicism and deviousness, anyway).
Discuss.
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0514/p01s02-woiq.html
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