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

To: FastC6 who wrote (547584)	3/3/2004 4:04:07 AM
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Bush Should 'Come Clean' on Wmd Intelligence - Kay By Ju-Lin Tan, PA News The former chief US weapons inspector today urged President George W Bush to admit that pre-war intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was “wrong”. In his first British newspaper interview, David Kay said he believed the US had lost the credibility of its intelligence following the failure to find stockpiles of WMDs in Iraq. He told The Guardian: “It’s about confronting and coming clean with the American people, not just slipping a phrase into the state of the union speech. He Bush] should say: ‘We were mistaken and I am determined to find out why’.” Mr Kay, who now believes any WMDs in Iraq were probably destroyed before 1998, added: “When you don’t say you got it wrong, it leads to the general belief that you manipulated the intelligence and so you did it for some other purpose.” The former head of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) also claimed the British Government was more concerned than the White House about his October report on the post-war hunt for WMDs. “It was a different political issue in London than it was here,” he said. “There was the David Kelly investigation that was ongoing. There was far more political concern there than what there was here, at least as expressed for me.” He added that the British were only concerned that the report was accurate and factual, which he did not think was inappropriate. Mr Kay, who resigned from the ISG in January, has repeatedly asserted that there were no stockpiles of WMDs in Iraq when the war began, and has blamed failures in US intelligence-gathering. He said he now believes intelligence agencies in the West made mistakes partly because they were “manipulated” by Iraqi dissidents determined to oust Saddam Hussein. But Mr Kay said he felt the war was justified and should be defended as a liberation of an oppressed people.