As we know, the last leg to stand on for those who fervently believe that Saddam still possessed WMD when Colin Powell et al said he did was the theory that WMD were moved to Syria shortly before the war started 2 years ago. Those fervent believers include those who apparently had taters in their ears when the President said that he guessed there weren't any (i.e. post-invasion), and who were listening loud and clear when the President said in Poland that we found them!
At any rate, I think it's kind of embarrassing that we have let this argument stand for so long, because this report makes an obvious conclusion from the earlier ISG report: pretty much, that given the fact the ISG concludes there were no weapons by March of 2003, how could any have been moved to Syria!?!?!?!? The actual quote from the report is below the fold.
724 Some reporting indicated that Iraq may have moved biological and chemical weapons stockpiles to Syria just prior to the start of the war in March 2003. CIA, Title Classified (Dec. 13, 2004) (citing one classified intelligence report (March 2003) from a foreign service). The security situation along the border between Iraq and Syria prevented the ISG from conclusively ruling out the possibility that such weapons were transported across the border. Interview withSpecial Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence Charles Duelfer (Oct. 13, 2004). It is important to note, however, that, given the overall findings of the ISG, there was nothing left to move by March 2003, save possibly some pre-1991 CW shells. Therefore, the conclusion that militarily significant stockpiles of CW or BW could not have been moved to Syria just before the war necessarily follows from the ISG's overall findings about the state of Iraq's WMD programs after 1991.