I'm not sure how old the Sarin gas missles were, but there were about 14 of them, and the main point is that they were not disposed of like they should have been, but only hidden. That begs the question, how much more is hidden?
The trucks moving out of Syria can indeed be anything, but it should be investigated more instead of just writing it off and saying that Saddam was not a threat because our inspectors could not find things at these sites Saddam was leading them to.
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As for him being a threat in the first place, if he acquired WMD, did he actually have the means to attack the US with them? If he channeled them off to terrorist groups, would they?
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If we didn't invade Iraq, I think Saddam would have been much more capable to hand them off or to use them. And it is obvious that terrorists are able to reach us after experiencing 9/11, but according to the 9/11 report and statements by the commision head (can't remember his name), terrorists do not have the capabilities to pull off another high scale attack on our home soil thanks to the war on terror.
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And how can you be sure of that? Depending on your view of the situation, that could go against Bush'n'co... Iraq was a threat because Saddam wanted weapons (of course, at the time we thought he had them, but since then people have been saying even without the weapons he was worth taking out), North Korea and Iran are a threat because they have them... But we invade Iraq?
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The problem there is that we have not gone through the same efforts with Iran and North Korea that we have with Iraq. Why? Because Iraq had more of a threat from the beginnning and the dictator ruling Iraq was much more sinister.
But, lets just imagine how much more other countries would be mad at us if we had instead invaded, say, Iran since we know there are WMD's there. We have not tried as much diplomacy, we have not put UN sanctions on them, and we don't have inspectors there. We would now be targetted for being a gigantic war-mongering nation because we didn't try to use diplomacy. We did in Iraq, and as far as we knew, it wasn't working.
Damn, got to go.