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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (474219)	10/10/2003 12:27:46 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You say lies enough times and you'll believe them, you lying pinhead. Where are the WMDs you lying loser?

To: jlallen who wrote (474219)	10/10/2003 12:29:18 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 769667

NEWS: No WMDs found in Iraq: inspector From correspondents in Washington 03oct03 THE United States has found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq yet, a top arms expert said today, but said there was "substantial evidence" that Iraq intended to make chemical and biological arms. The report by David Kay, the head of the US team of 1200 experts scouring Iraq for WMD, is likely to be seized upon by opponents of the war that brought down Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. But Kay appealed for up to nine months more to complete his work. "We have not found at this point actual weapons," the expert told reporters after giving closed door briefings to the Senate and House of Representatives intelligence committees on the work of the Iraq Survey Group. But he added, "we have found substantial evidence of an intent of senior level Iraqi officials, including Saddam, to continue production at some future point in time of weapons of mass destruction". He insisted the findings did not mean the United States had concluded there were no weapons. Kay said the experts had found "a large body of continuing activities and equipment that were not declared to the UN inspectors when they returned in November of last year". This included "substantial equipment and activities in the chemical and biological area, a much more substantial activity in the missile area". According to Kay, Saddam's regime was carrying out "a very full-scale program" that would have extended the range of its missiles beyond 1000 kilometres, capable of reaching Ankara, Cairo, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh from Iraqi territory. Kay estimated that it would take between six and nine more months to give a firm indication of the state of the Iraqi weapons program. "Believe me, if I wanted to go into business, I would go into the metal detection business in Iraq. I think for 100 years they will be digging up the relics of Saddam's empire that are buried over the country." He added: "My advice to everyone is still don't be surprised by surprises in Iraq." The New York Times said the search had already cost $US300 million and that the administration planned to ask for $US600 million more. Kay's report had been much-awaited as criticism has increased at home and abroad over the justification given by President George W. Bush for launching the Iraq war. Bush said before the war that Saddam's biological and chemical weapons were a threat which could not be avoided. Asked about Kay's remarks, a senior White House official who declined to be named replied: "Keep in mind it is a progress report, not a final reckoning of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs." And in London, British Foreign Minister Jack Straw said in a statement, "Kay's report confirms how dangerous and deceitful the regime was, and how the military action was indeed both justified and essential to remove the dangers". Britain was the main US ally in the Iraq war and Prime Minister Tony Blair also faces widespread criticism over the evidence used to back the case for the invasion. But Jay Rockefeller, the ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, said Kay's statement had raised questions about the Bush administration's general war doctrine as well as the reasons for invading Iraq, where there are still about 130,000 US troops. "I just think it's extraordinary that a decision was made to go to war and that we were told by our highest policymakers that there was (an) imminent threat, dangers, national security was at stake, as well as regional security. "And intelligence had been taken and now we find that nothing is available. No weapons of mass destruction, the biological, the chemical, nuclear perhaps least of all. I think we've all known that for a long time." Rockefeller said there was now little hope of finding much more. He said the failure to find evidence "raises real questions about something called the doctrine of preemption, the way we make decisions at the highest level". He added: "You just don't make decisions like we do and put our nation's youth at risk based upon something that appears not to have existed." heraldsun.news.com.au

To: jlallen who wrote (474219)	10/10/2003 12:29:25 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You you think Chris ConstantWhine is sylvester's alter ego?

To: jlallen who wrote (474219)	10/10/2003 12:30:15 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 769667

NEWS: No WMDS found in Iraq, reports U.S. arms inspector Friday, October 3, 2003 at 11:07 JST WASHINGTON — U.S. weapons inspectors in Iraq have found no weapons of mass destruction so far and will continue their search, the head of the survey team said Thursday. "We have not found at this point actual weapons," Central Intelligence Agency adviser David Kay, who heads the Iraq Survey Group, told reporters. ""It does not mean we've concluded there are no actual weapons," he said. "It means at this point in time, and it's a huge country with a lot to do, that we have not yet found weapons." (Kyodo News) japantoday.com

To: jlallen who wrote (474219)	10/10/2003 12:31:38 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

NEWS: No WMDs found, David Kay says Associated Press WASHINGTON--Chief U.S. weapons searcher David Kay reported Thursday he had found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, a finding that brought fresh congressional complaints about the Bush administration's prewar assertions of an imminent threat from Saddam Hussein. Kay, in a report to Congress, described evidence of a possible small-scale biological weapons effort, and said searchers had substantial evidence of an Iraqi push to boost the range of its ballistic missiles beyond prohibited ranges. But his team had found only limited evidence of any chemical weapons effort, he said, and there was almost no sign that a significant nuclear weapons project was under way. "We have not found at this point actual weapons," Kay said. "It does not mean we've concluded there are no actual weapons. "In addition to intent, we have found a large body of continuing activities and equipment that were not declared to the U.N. inspectors when they returned in November of last year," he said. He cautioned that the search was still under way and said he would know within six to nine months whether there was more to be found. The lack of substantive findings so far brought immediate negative reactions from both Republicans and Democrats in Congress. "I'm not pleased by what I heard today, but we should be willing to adopt a wait and see attitude, and that's the only alternative we really have," said Pat Roberts, R-Kan., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. charleston.net