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>>I'm still not convinced that Iraqi Air Force General George Sada and Ali Ibrahim al-Tikriti are both lying about the weapons going to Syria...if they are there, that was a very smart move. It's obvious why the U.S. wouldn't do anything about it, if true.
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>If they did, it was a very STUPID move. Most of the Arab world hated Saddam Hussien. Moving weapons from Iraq to some other country is simply handing them presents. Iraq would never have gotten them back.

Supposedly, it was a last resort agreement the two countries had (in case of invasion):
http://www.globalpolitician.com/21610-iraq-syria-wmd
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2006/02/a_second_iraqi_former_commande.html

There were reports by border patrols that trains were going back and forth then. However, the most interesting is this article:
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=28938

Snippet:
And not only did the UN fail. The U.S. itself also failed. After invading Iraq and overthrowing Saddam's regime, the U.S. military and intelligence arms took almost no action to ensure that suspected sites were secured and searched. The U.S. failed to pursue clear intelligence reports indicating that in the weeks before the invasion, suspicious truck convoys had traveled from Iraq to Syria carrying what were presumed to be weapons of mass destruction components.

As for Syria, still today, after Israel reportedly destroyed the Syrian nuclear installation at Deir az Zour, ...