A few voices have tried to make something of the claim by Rolf Ekeus that he was offered a bribe by Tariq Aziz. It's almost certainly true, but it doesn't justify any triumphal commenting by us babykilling types. We aren't told in this story, for instance, when the bribe was offered - if it was in 1997, when Ekeus was coming to the end of his time as inspector, it doesn't necessarily mean anything in relation to the issue of Iraq having WMD in 2002-03.
My guess - nothing more than that - is that the Desert Fox air raids of 1998 wrecked what was left of the Iraqi WMD programmes, already pretty much ruined by air attacks in 1991 and the UNSCOM work of the next few years. But there was no way we could get 100% assurance about that, and given Saddam's record and the example of 9/11, nothing less than 100% would do.