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

To: DizzyG who wrote (527985)	1/23/2004 4:05:01 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Respond to of 769667

Cmon....you're still in 2002, get up to date. And, BTW, Kay is Bush's man.... story.news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - David Kay stepped down as leader of the U.S. hunt for banned weapons in Iraq (news - web sites) on Friday and said he did not believe the country had any large stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons. Reuters Photo Latest headlines: · Halliburton Finds Possible Iraq Kickbacks Reuters - 12 minutes ago · Ex-Arms Hunter Kay Says No WMD Stockpiles in Iraq Reuters - 31 minutes ago · UN team arrives in Iraq as Annan readies announcement on future role AFP - 39 minutes ago Special Coverage In a direct challenge to the Bush administration, which says its invasion of Iraq was justified by the presence of illicit arms, Kay told Reuters in a telephone interview he had concluded there were no Iraqi stockpiles to be found. "I don't think they existed," Kay said. "What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last (1991) Gulf War (news - web sites), and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the nineties," he said. The CIA (news - web sites) announced earlier that former U.N. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer, who has previously expressed doubts that unconventional weapons would be found, would succeed Kay as Washington's chief arms hunter. Kay said he believes most of what was going to be found in the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has been found and that the hunt would become more difficult once America returned control of the country to the Iraqis. The United States went to war against Baghdad last year citing a threat from Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. To date, no banned arms have been found.