David Kay, who led the American effort to find banned weapons in Iraq, said Friday after stepping down from his post that he has concluded that Iraq had no stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons at the start of the war last year. In an interview with Reuters, Dr. Kay said he now thought that Iraq had illicit weapons at the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf war, but that the subsequent combination of United Nations inspections and Iraq's own decisions"got rid of them."
O-Kay... so, now. Tell us something we don't know. No nuclear capacity. No chemical weapons. No biological weapons. An army that was only a fraction of its 1991 size. No Al Qaeda ties.
After a while, repeating all this makes me feel like I'm a broken record. (I can get away with saying that because today's DJ's still use vinyl records to spin the latest dance music.)
David Kay, who led the American effort to find banned weapons in Iraq, said Friday after stepping down from his post that he has concluded that Iraq had no stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons at the start of the war last year. In an interview with Reuters, Dr. Kay said he now thought that Iraq had illicit weapons at the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf war, but that the subsequent combination of United Nations inspections and Iraq's own decisions"got rid of them."
O-Kay... so, now. Tell us something we don't know. No nuclear capacity. No chemical weapons. No biological weapons. An army that was only a fraction of its 1991 size. No Al Qaeda ties.
After a while, repeating all this makes me feel like I'm a broken record. (I can get away with saying that because today's DJ's still use vinyl records to spin the latest dance music.)
David Kay, who led the American effort to find banned weapons in Iraq, said Friday after stepping down from his post that he has concluded that Iraq had no stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons at the start of the war last year. In an interview with Reuters, Dr. Kay said he now thought that Iraq had illicit weapons at the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf war, but that the subsequent combination of United Nations inspections and Iraq's own decisions"got rid of them."
O-Kay... so, now. Tell us something we don't know. No nuclear capacity. No chemical weapons. No biological weapons. An army that was only a fraction of its 1991 size. No Al Qaeda ties.
After a while, repeating all this makes me feel like I'm a broken record. (I can get away with saying that because today's DJ's still use vinyl records to spin the latest dance music.)
Well, leave it to the most hawkish of the hawks to prove my point earlier today that nothing -- not the facts, not the disintegration of all their arguments for war with Iraq in the cold light of day, not the fact that our military is close to the breaking point now -- nothing will slow the hawks down in their plans to"remake" the Middle East.
Not content to leave bad enough alone, David Kay has some news for us, beyond the fact that with regard to Iraq's"large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq":"I don't think they existed." No, Mr. Kay has this additional tidbit to impart:
David Kay, the former head of the coalition's hunt for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, yesterday claimed that part of Saddam Hussein's secret weapons programme was hidden in Syria.And just why should we believe Mr. Kay, who has been wrong about everything of importance thus far?In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph, Dr Kay, who last week resigned as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said that he had uncovered evidence that unspecified materials had been moved to Syria shortly before last year's war to overthrow Saddam.
"We are not talking about a large stockpile of weapons," he said."But we know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD programme. Precisely what went to Syria, and what has happened to it, is a major issue that needs to be resolved."
Shame on you for asking such intemperate questions. This is YOUR GOVERNMENT speaking. You should remain silent, and respectful at all times. They know best -- just as they did in Vietnam.
They are wise, they are just, they have"special knowledge," they are beyond judgment -- and Syria is next in their sights, despite the fact that a military engagement with Syria might well destabilize the entire Middle East and lead to utterly unpredictable, and possibly disastrous, consequences.
Know your place. Be silent and obey.
(Cross-posted at The Light of Reason.)
