'Iraq Illicit Arms Gone Before War, Departing Inspector States'

[FreeperSlayer]

David Kay, who led the American effort to find banned weapons in Iraq, said Friday after stepping down from his post that he has concluded that Iraq had no stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons at the start of the war last year.

In an interview with Reuters, Dr. Kay said he now thought that Iraq had illicit weapons at the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf war, but that the subsequent combination of United Nations inspections and Iraq's own decisions "got rid of them."

Asked directly if he was saying that Iraq did not have any large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in the country, Dr. Kay replied, according to a transcript of the taped interview made public by Reuters, "That is correct."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/24/politics/24WEAP.html?th

[bobthedrummer]

1. Bush lied.

This is his war, the blood is on George W. Bush and Tony Blair for this permanent war they started. That is treason, is it not?

[Webster Green]

2. Kay was their guy....

He initially was trying to spin it for chimpy. In the end, he knew it wouldn't fly. There was nothing there to spin with. The only thing AWOL could come up with for the SOTU was a desperate reference to possible evidence of weapons programs, or some such nonsense. Nice try guys. You lied and that is how history will record it, despite your best revisionist efforts.

[xchrom]

3. you knew before the war, kay

you were deeply involved with the evidence and you knew that the insepections were working.
it's safe now that the deed is done to say the weapons aren't there.
the scary thing about you, kay, is that you can still sleep at night knowing that you lied before hand. all those innocent men, women and children -- killed and maimed for your p-nac lust.
what a pig.

[pinniped]

4. One quick 10 second blurb on CNN/Headline Newz.

Blink and you would have missed it.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. 5 months building it up....10 seconds taking it down

[kalian]

5. They're starting the spin.....

they're going to go after Syria shortly... Sharon has spoken and
the US doeth... :eyes:


Oh...and remember Saddam...? :eyes: Gee, whatever happened to him?