U.S. Finds Evidence Iraq Had Banned Weapons, Telegraph Says

[expatriot]

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=acadgbeDn4jQ&refer=uk



Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. has found evidence that Saddam Hussein's government was building weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, London's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported, citing a former United Nations weapons inspector.

David Kay, who is now leading a team of 1,400 American, British and Australian inspectors, told a U.S. Senate committee that people who doubted Hussein had weapons ready to use are in for a surprise, the Telegraph reported.

Kay's comments came at a private hearing in Washington and may ease pressure on U.S. President George W. Bush and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair to prove Hussein was a threat before U.S. and British forces invaded the nation earlier this year.

Blair said Hussein had weapons ready to use in 45 minutes. More than three months after fighting finished in Iraq, the U.S. and British forces there still haven't revealed evidence to back up that assertion.

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are you sure they aren't mustard gas canisters that the UK left there after gassing the arabs and the kurds in the 20's?

[NYC]

1. Today's key words: WAS BUILDING

Iraq "was building". And they were going to be ready for launch in 45 minutes?

[Spentastic]

2. Yep

They were building dangerous and complex weapons in 45 minutes. Damn those skilled Iraqis. They should start building cars they'd stuff the U.S car industry.

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. Sounds like what happens to me when I eat raw broccoli.

"She ate broccoli and WAS BUILDING weapons of mass production and ready to launch in 45 minutes."

[Brian Sweat]

25. No, the key word is "WAS"

When all of the dust clear, it will be quitely disclosed that this evidence refers to a program that existed pre GW1.

[Jivenwail]

3. I would tend to think

that if Mr. Kay has "found" anything at all worth mentioning, it would've already been announced with great flair and bragging about, "see, the bush cartel was right all along"! But alas, they are waiting to either plant the so-called evidence or will wait until they need to deflect more woes of smirk to show their what "was".

What crap.

[saigon68]

5. THIS GUY COULDN'T FIND HIS ASS WITH BOTH HANDS

This whole spin cycle reeks like an over ripe slurry pit.

For those who don't know what that is, its a pit to collect the liquid waste from the barn. You can smell it a mile away in a light breeze. The odor is exquisite at unplugging a clogged sinus.

LOL

[Abbalon]

30. In Germany

the people call the tanks that spread the liquid fertilizer, "honey pots".

[Spentastic]

4. Spook Alert

Former head of UNSCOM?

No wonder he found something.

[ze_dscherman]

6. Mega spook

He smells like a fish factory.

Two good links on Mr. Kay, from another thread (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=45986&mesg_id=45986)


CHERYL SEAL SPECIAL REPORT: Did David Kay Engineer WMD Evidence for Bush I -and Now Bush 2? http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4430/index.php

CHERYL SEAL REPORTS CORRECTION: Bush's Top WMD Inspector David Kay is NOT a scientist of any kind
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4522/index.php

[teryang]

10. The guy is despicable

How can this source have any credibility?

[bowens43]

7. Translation:

Still no WMD.

[Spentastic]

8. What an idiot

From the BBC.

People "should not be surprised by surprises", he said.

Huh?

[IndianaGreen]

9. David Kay, the CIA spook?

Why is the US refusing UN inspectors to enter the country? I wouldn't trust America any farther that I would I trusted anything that came out of Hitler's propaganda minister Goebbels.

[iam]

14. Don't trust America?

Well I'm an Aerican so I guess you don't trust me. Your Mother And Father are Americans, you don't trust them either? Point being, your choice of words gives conservatives a line of attack. What you don't trust is the bush* admin. I don't trust the bush* admin. Liberals need to understand the words we use are important, why do you think the crazies use the word Democrat insrtead of Democratic?

[leesa]

33. Isn't the point that the rest of the world no longer trusts America?

If you can get out of the local political mindset and see what this has done to the US globally, it will help to understand the comment.

[iam]

38. No, the point is

keeping conservatives from winning elections by painting liberals as the "blame America first" crowd. The rest of the world trusting us is important, but it's a trust we can earn back by winning the White House and Congress back.

[Snellius]

11. They're calling it the "big impact plan"

Iraq weapons strategy
The Pentagon adopted a new strategy in its search for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. It is called the "big impact" plan.
The plan calls for gathering and holding on to all the information now being collected about the weapons. Rather than releasing its findings piecemeal, defense officials will release a comprehensive report on the arms, perhaps six months from now.
The goal of the strategy will be to quiet critics of the Bush administration who said claims of Iraq's hidden weapons stockpiles were exaggerated in order to go to war.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/inring.htm

[Imalittleteapot]

12. Big Implant strategy

Release info just in time for 2004 campaigning.

[otohara]

22. Big Implants In LA

also...

[joshcryer]

13. What a crock!

GODDAMNIT. This kind of shit can't be allowed to happen.

[FubarFly]

17. If we know about it now, we can insure that it will backfire.

While no one atgues that Iraq had WMD programs and perhaps a few WMDS,
the fact remains that much of the intelligence used before the war was exaggerated or outright fabricated.

The fact remains that Iraq had no intention of using the few remaining weapons it possessed as proven by its refusal to do so when its own sovereignty was at risk.

The fact remains that the UN inspectors could have accomplished the same task as the US inspectors, but do to strictly political reasons they weren't given the time. Political reasons are the reason that we played games with our intelligence before the war, and its politcal reasons that this report is being conveniently timed to coincide with the election season.

When will this administration get it? A just war is at its very best is a necessary evil, something to be avoided if at all possible. But this war was neither necessary nor just. The evidence of WMD's months after the fact doesn't change that. And the administration know this. This is why they have to spin and lie. This is why they didn't level with us before the war, they didn't level with us during the war, and they are certainly not going to level with us now.

This is one of the very many reasons why we need a regime change- in America.

[TacticalPeek]

41. So this the Carol Doda Strategy?

Or maybe the John Wayne Bobbitt Strategery?

[Devil Dog Dem]

15. So let me get this straight . . .

W went to war because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction ready to use against the U.S. within 45 minutes of his orders and so far we have found a bunch of documents, and this clown is claiming vindication?

Somebody shut this asshole up.

[Guaranteed]

18. Proof is in the pudding....

SHOW ME.

[Neutrino]

19. --And Bush HAD a drinking problem. He is now President

of the United States. If "HAD" were the criterion for proof of
accusations, all of us would be in deep shit.

If Iraq "HAD" WMD in the past and discontinued or destroyed them,
which must be the case, because they are nowhere to be found,
and then bits and pieces of the past are resurrected, it means nothing.
Zero, nada, gor nicht.

[bushisanidiot]

20. I'm Hoping There's a Mole in there

with the 'inspector' team. How are 1400 people gonna keep their mouths shut on the plant, faked documents, etc.? One of 'em has to have a conscience.

[robbedvoter]

21. Here's a good rebuttal from the neocons:

We Already Know the Administration Was Lying
http://www.lewrockwell.com/callahan/callahan113.html
Pf course, the Dems are saying it too in the senate.
Rockefeller: We were supposed to find weapons, not a program. We sisn't go to war for a program" Ted Kennedy spoke of the mass deception that made this war without justification.
The word I am still waiting for is: PREEMPTION - OF WHAT?

[Danmack]

23. It appears that chimpy and crew have one of the biggest criminal....

and misinformation empires going, the likes that has never been seen in American politics since Nixon.

I'm afraid we might not survive his tenure:(

[Zero Gravitas]

24. Iraq DID have WMDs

The problem for Botch* and his fellow "SissyHawks" (Calvin Trillian used that term last night on Charlie Rose) is that they were all destroyed 10 years ago.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

35. CT was excellent on Rose.

He took Charlie, kicking and screaming, over the reasons why it's a BS war.

[glitch]

37. damn my inability to bear smarmy Rose!

I would've enjoyed seeing that...

[killbotfactory]

26. Oh, it's David Kay

I've heard him say several times that we had the proof of WMD's... right before that evidence was discredited.

He also said that Iraq was definatly up to something because they had an old nuclear reactor site... even though UN inspectors sealed the damn thing, and it's been bombed repeatedly throughout the years.

Might as well quote Richard Perle.

[Jack Rabbit]

27. Wouldn't planting WMDs require lots of fertilizer?

Mr. Kay is supplying a few bags.

[Trajan]

28. Mr. Kay was sitting in the CNN studios during the war's progress .....

And every time someone found some barrels or a truck, he DEMANDED that these proved the existence of Saddam' WMD's ..... they were an absolute certitude in his mind ......

David Kay is NOT on unbiased observer .....

SPEAKING of biased observers: .....

ISNT the Daily Telegraph part and parcel of the Hollinger Digital universe ? ..... of which Richard Perle is directly involved in management ? .....

ISNT Richard Perle a primary mover of the current Iraqi action, due to his prominent role in the Pentagon Defense Board, and his connection to the PNAC/AEI ? .....

I NEVER trust a Perle publication to present an honest and uncolored view of the subject matter: ..... I expect him to color ALL news to curry favor for his own position ....

Promoting David Kay's worldview is a prime example ...

[ze_dscherman]

29. "It Was Never About a Smoking Gun," by David Kay

Date: January 19, 2003

The following article by former United Nations weapons inspector David Kay first appeared in The Washington Post January 19. Permission has been granted for distribution and further republication, in English and in translation abroad and in the local press outside the United States.

Below is the byliner:

It Was Never About A Smoking Gun

By David Kay

(David Kay is a senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. In 1991, he served as chief nuclear weapons inspector of UNSCOM, the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq.)

When it comes to the U.N. weapons inspection in Iraq, looking for a smoking gun is a fool's mission. That was true 11 years ago when I led the inspections there. It is no less true today -- even after the seemingly important discovery on Thursday of a dozen empty short-range missile warheads left over from the 1980s.

The only job the inspectors can expect to accomplish is confirming whether Iraq has voluntarily disarmed. That is not a task that need take months more. And last week's cache is irrelevant in answering that question, regardless of the U.N.'s final determination. That's because the answer is already clear: Iraqi is in breach of U.N. demands that it dismantle its weapons of mass destruction.

SNIP


http://www.useu.be/Categories/GlobalAffairs/Iraq/Jan1903IraqSmokingGunKay.html

[tomp]

31. they can't be innocent because they're guilty? nt

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

36. yesno

nt

[jenk]

34. yes it was kay, you moron

they're probably going to present us with more papers stating that Iraq was planning on doing something in 1995, or were capable of producing such missile's in 1993.....but that actual WMD? NOTHING!!!

[Larkspur]

32. Guess Chalabi must have gotten MS Word and made up

stuff to give to the Americans.

[Lexingtonian]

39. according to Ted Kennedy, this is a crock

NPR this morning quoted Ted Kennedy, coming from the Senate hearing, saying that he'd heard nothing that was really new from these bozos. OK, I added the bozos part.

[skip fox]

40. Hell, Drudge hasn't even linked it.

n/t

[lumpy]

42. Paper evidence ?

According to the press, documents have been found supporting the contention that Iraq had weapons, no hard evidence however.

[Cronus Protagonist]

43. So they "Telegraphed" it

Another Murdoch whore newspaper. Remember when the Telegraph reporter "found" documents "implicating France" in the rubble of an Iraqi building? They turned out to be planted forgeries as well.


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[Guaranteed]

44. I've been reading up on David Kay....pretty filthy rep

Seems this guy, a "former UN weapons inspector," is "former" because he was coercing Iraqis into giving false witness about Iraq's weapons programs, and was dismissed for violations of ethics. He's also been working with the Bushees and the Reaganites since before the first Gulf War. He was hired by George Herbert to find weapons of mass destruction after the first Gulf War when the president realized his popularity was dropping. Funny that the guy shows up once again in virtually the same situation. This guy is dirty as hell.

[hotphlash]

45. The operative word is HAD

The fact that the inspectors left in 1998 and the only nuclear weapons parts they found were buried TWELVE years ago is proof that they weren't RECONSTITUTING.

The fact that the only Niger evidence the English cite was from the eighties and 1998 at the latest is proof that they weren't reconstituting.

The fact that chemical weapons become USELESS after a few years puts holes in this theory.

We had inspectors and no fucking fly zones. An imminent threat is not Hussein saying "Wait. Gimme three or four years with NO international interferennce and let me build out in the open and then we'll kill you"