Bush on the RUN so badly...he BANS THE WORDS WMD FROM HIS PRESS RELEASES>>>>HE"S A LIER~!
Bush Prefers Program to Weapons
By Pascal Riche
La Liberation
Friday 01 August 2003
Not finding an arsenal, the researchers now want to prove that Saddam was trying to constitute one.
Washington correspondence
The order has been given to the whole Bush administration: from now on, one must no longer speak of "Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction", but simply of his "program". During his Wednesday press conference, President George Bush used the new expression three times. This semantic shift is not innocent: it's easier to discover a program than an arsenal.
Yesterday, David Kay, the American inspector charged by the CIA with leading the search for Iraqi weapons, was heard in closed session by two Senate Committees (Armed Services and Intelligence). He was accompanied by General Keith Dayton, Director of the Pentagon's Intelligence Services, who co-directs the searches.
The 1,500 researchers working under their command have not, up till now, found the least trace of forbidden weapons, in spite of the numerous interviews they've had with Iraqi scientists. On the other hand, Kay has brought together kilometers of documents, which, according to the Bush administration, clearly bring the existence to light of an "active" weapons program. During a press conference, David Kay took stock of the "important progress" that he was making every day, mentioning the discovery of new "sensitive sites", the existence of which had been hidden from UN inspectors, and of illuminating testimony from scientists "whose cooperation keeps growing." The Democratic opposition was not fooled. The semantic displacement of arsenal to program represents "a clear defeat for the White House", reckons Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller (West Virginia). According to him, this is still very far from the "imminent threat" put forward by the government at the beginning of the year.
For the moment, Americans are divided. In an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll, 48 % of respondents thought that Bush had given overall fair information about the reality of the Iraqi threat, against 47 % who felt he had obscured the case.
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