The Coalition forces entered Iraq with the firm belief that Iraq was indeed producing weapons of mass destruction in violation of UN resolutions. Now that the Coalition has complete freedom to roam all over Iraq, they are trying to say that they task of actually discovering a smoking gun is not as easy as it seems. Donald Rumsfeld himself warned:

"It is not like a treasure hunt, where you just run around looking everywhere hoping you find something. The inspectors didn't find anything, and I doubt that we will..."

Saddam Hussein's top science adviser, Lt. Gen. Amir al-Saadi who surrendered to the Coalition forces also denied that Iraq has any weapons of mass destruction. And he told the press just prior to his surrender that time will prove him right.

There was such certainty on the side of US about Iraq's possession of WMD when they rallied the world to wage this war against Iraq. And that Iraq was playing a game of hide-and-seek with the UN weapons inspectors. Now that the hide-and-seek game is over, shouldn't it be easy for the US to immediately zero in on the evidence present?

Then there is also the lingering question: if Saddam Hussein did indeed possess WMD, why didn't he use it against the Coalition forces when Baghdad was under siege? Wasn't Saddam the brutal and merciless tyrant that we were all led to believe by the Western media? So, what's the big deal about unleashing some of the WMDs on the infidels who were invading their motherland?

Lots of questions and very few answers yet. The world waits for the unveiling of the smoking gun.