If WMDs actually had been found in Iraq, it would have been incredibly beneficial to the US and UK governments to publicize the hell out of that fact, and would have done a lot to vindicate the decisions of Bush, Blair, and others. I find it hard to imagine any reason that they would want to keep any quantity of Iraqi WMDs, no matter how large, secret from the public. They more they found, the better it would be for them; why would they ever make a decision to cover up WMDs because there were too many of them?. It just doesn't make sense in the slightest. Does this conspiracy theory hold that the government was afraid people would panic if they knew that Iraq had lots of WMDs? We went for decades with everyone knowing that the Soviets had tens of thousands of the hydrogen bombs, as well as extensive nerve gas stockpiles. How much worse could Iraq's arsenal have been? I don't think Iraq would even have had the technical or economic ability to produce so many WMDs that the US government would decide their arsenal was literally too big for people to handle hearing about.
Even if they did find a shitload of WMDs and decided that the public shouldn't know the full scale of the findings, they probably would have at least revealed some of them and kept the rest secret, to cover their asses and justify a war that was desperately in need of justification. It just beggars belief that there could be any sensible reason to cover it up.
Overall, I'd say that this conspiracy theory is retarded and utterly implausible. Unlike some other conspiracy theories, there's not even any conceivable motive that makes a lick of sense.
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