Kay: Bush Should Admit Error on Iraq WMD
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By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON - Former U.S. weapons inspector David Kay is advising President Bush (news - web sites) to acknowledge he was wrong about hidden storehouses of weapons in Iraq (news - web sites) and move ahead with overhauling the intelligence process.
In an Associated Press interview, Kay said the "serious burden of evidence" suggests Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) did not have caches of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons at the beginning of the Iraqi war, but was seriously engaged in developing missiles.
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Keep in mind that missiles was the one violation UNMOVIC did find before the start of the war, and iraq agreed to and was in the process of destroying. This gets more shameful by the day.
In addition, it's ok to build up forces on his border every few years to keep him in his box, and continue to piss off the bin-laden types with our continuous presence there.
This is rich...we can invade one of their countries, maintain bases in his most sacred one for 12 years, but you take issue with us maintaining bases in Kuwait, where our soldiers could have camped for a century, just as they do in 500 other locations around the world.
It sounds to me that anything short of a super-sized scud missile with WMD pointing at us is "compliance" to you.
I could be clever and point out to you that he couldn't hit the broad side of an israeli barn with his scuds in 91...but I understand the broader point you are trying to make...you realize that 1) this was the one thing our intel was clear about, that is that there was no love lost nor a relationship between saddam and queda and 2) there are far more dangerous places in the world relative to unsecured WMDs capabilities. The recent pakistani revelations are but the tip of the iceberg. Security for the former USSR federations's weapons are another. You should know that this very same president, which was "sufficiently" (if you believe the BS of course) concerned about queda obtaining weapons from a man he considered an enemy, also cut funding for the effort to secure former USSR weaponry. How's that for consistency ?
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