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Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Iraq posed no WMD threat
It seems there was a weapon of mass destruction in Iraq after all: David Kay. The recently resigned CIA chief weapons inspector has just blown gaping holes in the Bush administration's fundamental justifications for the war on Iraq.
In interviews with National Public Radio and The New York Times, Kay, a former United Nations weapons inspector hired last summer by CIA Director George Tenet to lead the search for WMDs in Iraq, said he has concluded that much if not all the intelligence used to justify the war was flawed, if not flat wrong.
Kay told The Times the Bush administration was almost certainly wrong in its prewar belief that Iraq had any significant stockpiles of illicit weapons. He found the prewar intelligence so far off the mark that he will recommend the process for intelligence gathering and analysis at the CIA and other intelligence agencies be overhauled.
Not only was war unnecessary to disarm an already disarmed Iraq but Kay's findings also show that U.N. weapons inspections had driven Iraq to abandon the production of illicit weapons and get rid of its existing stockpiles in the past decade.
"They didn't want to get caught," Kay said.
So there was not only no imminent WMD threat but even the potential for such a threat was suppressed by the U.N. weapons inspections.
The man whose job it was to find the weapons over which we went to war says the weapons weren't there after all.
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