Did David Kay Engineer WMD Evidence for Bush I -and Now Bush 2?

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CHERYL SEAL SPECIAL REPORT: Did David Kay Engineer WMD Evidence for Bush I -and Now Bush 2?
by Cheryl Seal
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17 Jul 2003
What David Kay is leaving out of his bio these days is that until 2002, he was VP of SAIC, a company rolling in Bush defense contracts. Kay produced
"retroactive" evidence of WMDs for Bush I. Now he's Bush and Tenet's pick to get the goods...tho' he was fired in 1992 from his UN job for unethical
behavior.
Like Bremer, Rice, Rumsfeld, and the rest of the cast of hardened corporate characters, David Kay is an overfed
relic from a past rightwing hawk regime. Under Reagan, he was a chief scientist for the Pentagon to Kay's "scientific background" at http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4522/index.php]
as well as serving as a section chief for the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Administration of the UN) from
1983 until 1991. During this time, Hans Blix - Kay's boss - who was a man of integrity, was continually pressured by
first Reagan, then Bush I. to come up with 'evidence' that oil-rich Iraq posed a sufficient nuclear threat for the US to
invade (and thus to capture the oil).

In fact, until Kay came along, most experts in most western nations believed there was no evidence for an extensive
WMD program in Iraq. But after the war, when Bush I needed greater validation for his actions in the run up to the
1992 election, Kay was made chief nuclear inspector for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) on
Iraq. UNSCOM was created in response to the Bush claims that Iraq was a hotbed of WMD weaponry that had to be
'dismantled.' Kay's investigations turned up all sorts of 'evidence' -given the time lapse from the end of the war to
Kay's mission, who knows how much of it was planted -possibly all of it. Certainly the contributions of some
'defectors' have been totally dicredited. But UNSCOM produced the same sort of arrays of conveniently -in fact,
unbelievably- detailed documents, all just left 'just laying around,' waiting to be found by Kay and company. The
same evidence we hear reported ad infinitum and sans question on NBC, CNN, et al. Thanks to Kay's obliging efforts
for Bush after Gulf War I, the stage was neatly set for Gulf War II. In fact, the entire invasion of Iraq was trumped
up over the UN clause referring to WMDs.

Whenever Kay makes the rounds of the Bush-controlled media these days, he is always introduced only as 'former
UN chief weapons inspector' and 'senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Research.' In short, Kay skips
over several years of his interim history. Why? Maybe because during the 'missing years,' he was Vice President of
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a company with extremely close ties to the Pentagon and
to the Bush administration in particular. A company up to its armpits in post-war Iraqi business, not to mention
secret contracts rumored to involve electronic spying. A company in which Kay is rumored to still hold a sizeable
chunk of stock, one where he maintains a rich network of inside connections.
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