From the Guardian Weekly:
The man in charge of a $300m hunt for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction last week admitted that no hidden arsenal had been found, and the only potential weapon uncovered was a single vial containing a biological toxin widely used in cosmetic surgery.According to a progress report by the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), delivered to the US Congress by the group's leader, David Kay, Saddam had taken no steps to revive his nuclear weapons plan since 1998, and had abandoned any large-scale chemical weapons programme more than a decade ago.
Instead his report focused on documentary, circumstantial and informers' evidence which, Mr Kay said, pointed to the Iraqi leader's intentions to revive a weapons programme. "We have found substantial evidence of intent of senior-level Iraqi officials, including Saddam Hussein, to continue production at some future point in time of weapons of mass destruction," Mr Kay said. "We have not found, at this point, actual weapons."
So, was it justified or not?
I don't think so... But hey, tell me what you think.