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

To: PartyTime who wrote (531301)	1/28/2004 12:26:32 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You must be kidding!!!!! holy crap..... the war never ended...the Publicans must have stayed up ALL NIGHT TO FABRICATE THAT LIE! CC

To: PartyTime who wrote (531301)	1/28/2004 12:32:33 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

story.news.yahoo.com Later, he told the Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites) that "we were almost all wrong — and I certainly include myself here," in believing that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. But Kay denied suggestions by Democrats that intelligence analysts felt pressured by the administration to shape intelligence to help President Bush (news - web sites) make the case for war. He said he spoke to many analysts who prepared the intelligence and "not in a single case was the explanation that I was pressured to this." Kay also said despite no evidence of weapons stockpiles, Iraqi documents, physical evidence and interviews with Iraqi scientists revealed that Iraq was engaged in weapons programs prohibited by U.N. resolutions. Senators have been anxious to speak to Kay, one of a number of U.S. officials who have recently adjusted their positions on Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s military capabilities. The Bush administration cited a threat from such weapons as a principle justification for invading Iraq and toppling Saddam last year. While inspectors have been unable to unearth weapons of mass destruction, they have found new evidence that Saddam's regime quietly destroyed some stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons in the mid-1990s, Kay told The Washington Post in an interview in Tuesday editions. Democratic presidential contenders have grabbed onto Kay's conclusion on the absence of banned weapons. "The administration did cook the books," Howard Dean (news - web sites) told reporters Tuesday. "I think that's pretty serious." Kay's resignation and subsequent statements come as many in the administration subtly are changing their assertions about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, including Bush. In last year's State of the Union, Bush called Saddam a "dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons." In the State of the Union this month, Bush spoke of Saddam's programs, rather than weapons: "Had we failed to act, the dictator's weapons of mass destruction programs would continue to this day. " Last February, Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) told the United Nations (news - web sites) Security Council that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction that posed "real and present dangers." This weekend, Powell began to backpedal, saying the United States thought Saddam had banned weapons, but "we had questions that needed to be answered." there they are....TOUR DE IRAQ...only BACKPEDDLING FAST FAST FAST CC