Any hand waving you do does not change the fact that WMD were used as a pretext for the war because of an *iminent* threat.
Equipment or documents that might ( but probably not) have allowed saddam to develop chem/bio weapons 5-6 years down the road if all the inspectors left the country and the rest of the world proceded to look the other way do not a 45-minute nuke inbound make.
Uranium enrichment is not a trivial process.
It involves either the construction of a breeder-reactor ( beyond the technical means anyone has even most generously given saddam )
Centrifuge enrichment on the other hand involves converting a large amount of uranium into uranium hexa-flouride. A gas that is not only toxic and radioactive, but eats through steel.
Equipment or documents that might ( but probably not) have allowed saddam to develop chem/bio weapons 5-6 years down the road if all the inspectors left the country and the rest of the world proceded to look the other way do not a 45-minute nuke inbound make.
Uranium enrichment is not a trivial process.
It involves either the construction of a breeder-reactor ( beyond the technical means anyone has even most generously given saddam )
Centrifuge enrichment on the other hand involves converting a large amount of uranium into uranium hexa-flouride. A gas that is not only toxic and radioactive, but eats through steel.