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To: Neocon who wrote (123603)	1/23/2004 6:43:58 PM
From: Rascal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Ex-U.S. Arms Hunter Kay Says No Stockpiles in Iraq Fri Jan 23, 2:20 PM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! WASHINGTON (Reuters) - David Kay, who stepped down as leader of the U.S. hunt for weapons of mass destruction, said on Friday he does not believe there were any large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq "I don't think they existed," Kay told Reuters in a telephone interview. "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 '90s," he said. Kay said he believes most of what is going to be found in the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has been found and that the hunt will become more difficult once America turns over governing 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. No actual banned arms have been found. news.yahoo.com Rascal @WheelsOffTheWagon.com

To: Neocon who wrote (123603)	1/23/2004 9:31:10 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

It is silly to say that "all allied intelligence services and the CIA during the '90s thought they were there" -- if that was true there would have been a UN Resolution backing an invasion. INstead, there was concern that weapons might be there but there was considerable uncertainty, which is why most countries backed continued inspections. BTW, UN inspections were a spectacular success at finding and destroying WMD. The US invasion was a complete flop on this score.