Much of Europe Is Derisive About Report on Iraqi Arms

[kskiska]

PARIS, Jan. 30 — Much of Europe has given a collective snort to the testimony by David Kay, the former chief United States weapons inspector, that there probably were no illicit weapons in Iraq before the United States-led war there.

"There is a kind of cynicism here," said Dominique Moïsi, a political analyst in Paris. "So the Americans lied to their people and to us and maybe to themselves. That's exactly what we already thought."

Similar sentiments rippled across the Continent, where debate on the war was split between those who believed and those who doubted American and British contentions that Iraq posed an imminent threat.

Mr. Kay's testimony on Wednesday created less derision in countries like Poland, which supported the United States in going to war. "It doesn't change our position," said Boguslaw Majewski, a spokesman for Poland's Foreign Ministry. "When the decision was reached, all the warning signals were there."

There was greater bemusement in Europe over Britain's seemingly contradictory report that chastised the British Broadcasting Corporation for suggesting that Prime Minister Tony Blair's administration had hyped intelligence reports of weapons in Iraq.

"Especially in France, there is a feeling that if the David Kay report is right," Mr. Moïsi said. "How can the BBC be so severely punished for revealing what was ultimately true?"

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Much of the US citizens that have a full brain pan too.

[FloridaPat]

2. Poland got bribed very handsomely. They have no reason

to say anything now. They probably want more bribes.

[MajorFlaw]

3. You mean if we lie to them they have a right to be pissed off?

[pink_poodle]

4. No matter how many phony reports get cooked up.....................

the real people of the world will believe what their instincts, knowledge, beliefs and eyes tell them - the lying liars ........LIED!