In defeat.
"Chief of Weapons Hunt in Iraq May Leave
By DAFNA LINZER, Associated Press Writer
"...David Kay, a former U.N. weapons inspector, was named by the CIA (news - web sites) in June to lead the search for weapons of mass destruction. His appointment, and the creation of his operation, the Iraq Survey Group, was supposed to be the key to finding the weapons Iraq long denied having.
Kay returned to the United States last week and on Thursday, a U.S. intelligence official in Washington said he was considering quitting his post...Weapons hunters are spending more time on base, intelligence experts have been reassigned to work on the counterinsurgency and the man leading a so-far unsuccessful search for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons is thinking of stepping down.
A nine-month search for the weapons of mass destruction President Bush (news - web sites) said he went to war to destroy has been conducted by a succession of U.S. teams that have all failed to find any chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
The lack of evidence has led critics to suggest the Bush administration either mishandled or exaggerated its knowledge of Iraq (news - web sites)'s alleged arsenal..."Now we're lucky if there's a mission once a week around here," he said...
The weapons hunt is staffed by more than 1,000 intelligence analysts, interrogators and translators who pore over documents, investigate suspect sites and conduct interviews with Iraqis.
"It's probably time to call it quits," said Hans Blix, the former chief U.N. weapons inspector, whose teams were given one-third of the time the United States has already spent looking for weapons."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=5&u=/ap/20031218/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_weapons_hunt(Woah. There's good jobs program for the US. Just hire everyone
to "hunt" for WMD. 1000 people that work once a week! Schweet.)