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To: epicure who wrote (22460)	7/16/2003 8:53:07 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 89467

US weapons adviser confident of finding Iraqi arms famulus.msnbc.com. WASHINGTON, July 15 — The head of the Bush administration team charged with finding Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction said on Tuesday he expected to have enough evidence within six months to accomplish his mission. <font size=5>David Kay, a former U.N. chief nuclear weapons inspector, said on ''NBC Nightly News'' that U.S. forces had collected a massive amount of documents that when completely analyzed would prove ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.<font size=3> Three months after toppling Saddam, the United States and Britain have found no banned weapons. Both countries held out Iraq's weapons program as a major justification for going to war. <font size=4>''You cannot believe how many cases we have of documents and equipment stored in private residences,'' Kay said in an interview in Baghdad. ''I've already seen enough to convince me, but that's not the standard. I've got to have enough evidence to convince everyone of that,'' he said. Asked how long it would take for him to present a convincing case, Kay responded, ''I think we'll have a substantial body of evidence before six months.'' Kay's Iraq Survey Group, which includes dozens of former U.N. weapons inspectors, is sifting through Iraqi documents in search of clues -- from personnel records of laboratory workers to lab results. ''We're finding progress reports, Kay said. ''They actually went to Saddam and said we have made this progress. There are records, audiotapes of those interviews which give us that.'' <font size=5>Kay told NBC the documents also showed workers got financial rewards from Saddam by indicating breakthroughs in the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. <font size=4> Kay expressed confidence he could make the case against Saddam but conceded his assessment must be solid. ''What worries me is I know if we can't explain the WMD program of Iraq, we lose credibility with regard to other states like Iran, Syria, North Korea,'' he said.

To: epicure who wrote (22460)	7/17/2003 2:27:30 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

The president is held to a higher standard. This president has jeopardized this country's while destroying all the positive gains of the past two hundred years in the short time he's been in office is IMO at the very LEAST heinous. He has not honored his oath of office. Former Inspector Ritter's Book Rips Bush By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer 07/16/03: UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter released a new book, accusing President Bush of illegally attacking Iraq and calling for "regime change" in the United States at the next election. Ritter criticized key figures caught up in the U.S.-led war at Monday's U.N. news conference. He said Bush lied to the American people and Congress about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction; U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan lacked courage; former chief weapons inspector Hans Blix was "a moral and intellectual coward." Ritter, a former U.S. Marine, was a weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. He has been a vocal critical of the Bush administration's policy on Iraq. Ritter said he wrote "Frontier Justice, Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Bushwacking of America" to educate people. The 209-page paperback, published by Context Books, has on its cover a picture of Bush in jeans and a cowboy hat, behind the wheel of a truck. In the book, Ritter notes that the Bush administration's stated reason for launching the war was to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. The book argues that there is no evidence that Iraq possesses, produces or concealed nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Therefore, Ritter argues that "the United States carried out an illegal war of aggression." Bush, responding Monday to similar charges about the lack of evidence of illegal Iraqi weapons, insisted: "When it's all said and done, the people of the United States and the world will realize that Saddam Hussein had a weapons program." Ritter said Bush's real goal was to get rid of Saddam Hussein's regime. "What is needed in America is regime change," Ritter writes. "Anything but Bush and (Vice President Dick) Cheney." At the news conference, Ritter accused France and Germany of failing to get a Security Council or General Assembly resolution calling the war illegal and demanding a U.S. withdrawal. Ritter had kind words for Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He said ElBaradei was "much more honest" than Blix about appraising Iraq's nuclear weapons and the threat they posed. Copyright 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved.