We did dective work in Iraq for 14 years and almost as many UN resolutions. If the weapons were moved out it was because of the simple fact that multilateralism at the UN was not effective. Like /^Blackmagik^\ said, for the longest time the UN insectors could not go into palaces. It only seems logical to me that if I had something that another person wanted to find I would hide it in the one place they could not go. The UN should have had unfettered access from day 1 to the whole of Iraq like they did 14 years later.

And there is still no proof that the weapons are not there, nor is there proof as to where they are. The only thing there is proof of is that as of 1998/1999 they were in Iraq and there was a large quantity of them and no record or proof of them being destroyed.