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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (115)1/31/2004 7:53:02 AM
From: PartyTime  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
Patricia, you're very intelligent and perceptive! Interesting to note what Kay said during his presentation before the Armed Services Committee:

>>> "I'm personally convinced that there were not large stockpiles of newly produced weapons of mass destruction," Kay told the New York Times. "We don't find the people, the documents or the physical plants that you would expect to find if the production was going on. I think they gradually reduced stockpiles throughout the 1990's. Somewhere in the mid-1990's the large chemical overhang of existing stockpiles was eliminated. The Iraqis say the they believed that [the UN inspection system] was more effective [than U.S. analysts believed it was], and they didn't want to get caught."<<<

So they didn't find "the people, the documents or the physical plants." Apparently what they did find were "program-related activities." What were those, scratch notes from scientists connected with the University of Baghdad? Or are they still relying on depositions from previous Iraqi defectors?

What I find interesting is that Kay's testimony above practically mirrors what Saddam's son-in-law Kamel stated when he defected. Kamel, in the mid-90's told Western intelligence that the WMD was destroyed and he also then said that the UN was very good at its inspection work. Interesting to see Kay deliver a similar credit, eh?
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