WP: Kay Says Evidence Shows Iraq Disarmed

[huckleberry]

Action Done in '90s, Ex-Inspector Notes
By Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, January 28, 2004; Page A01

U.S. weapons inspectors in Iraq found new evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime quietly destroyed some stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons in the mid-1990s, former chief inspector David Kay said yesterday.

The discovery means that inspectors have not only failed to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq but also have found exculpatory information -- contemporaneous documents and confirmations from interviews with Iraqis -- demonstrating that Saddam Hussein did make efforts to disarm well before President Bush began making the case for war.

snip -- and this is the key paragraph (imho) ...

Kay's criticism of the quality of prewar intelligence has angered members of the intelligence community. He called U.S. intelligence "inaccurate" Monday on NBC, adding, "We need to understand why that was."

more at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54353-2004Jan27.html?nav=hptop_tb

[ixion]

1. drip, drip... trickle...

finally, the US media is printing what much of the rest of the world has known all along... there was no need to invade Iraq.

What a waste. :-(

[pinto]

2. kick

[are_we_united_yet]

3. Whoaaa!

That doesn't look good.

Dick, you got some 'splainin to do.

[Virginian]

4. Here's the link to 9/11 -- (Sarcasm)

"The fact that Iraq disarmed at least partially before 1998 but did not turn over records to U.N. inspectors even when threatened with war has led Kay to conclude that Hussein was bluffing about his weapons capability to maintain an aura of power. "

If he had admitted he had destroyed his arsenal, they might have attacked him instead of us.