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Ex-U.S. Arms Hunter Kay Says No Stockpiles in Iraq
Drudge Report ^ | 1-23-04 | Reuters

Posted on 01/23/2004 12:01:47 PM PST by MamaLucci

Ex-U.S. Arms Hunter Kay Says No Stockpiles in Iraq

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - David Kay, who stepped down as leader of the U.S. hunt for weapons of mass destruction, said on Friday he does not believe there were any large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq

"I don't think they existed," Kay told Reuters in a telephone interview. "What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last (1991) Gulf War (news - web sites) and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s," he said.

Kay said he believes most of what is going to be found in the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has been found and that the hunt will become more difficult once America turns over governing the country to the Iraqis.

The United States went to war against Baghdad last year citing a threat from Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. No actual banned arms have been found.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: appeasers; davidkay; hateamericafirst; iraqiwmds; pacifism; wmdeadenders
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To: TankerKC
Another one for the "Non-response Hall-of-Fame"

TankerKC, this is typical of JohnGalt. He spouts off some non-sensical drivel about right-wing Marxists, and the U.S. should dissolve the military because only then would we be left alone by terrorists, etc., then he calls those of us concerned with facts and logic left-wingers! I don't know why I've wasted so much time on him...

161 posted on 01/30/2004 2:35:37 PM PST by HenryLeeII
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To: HenryLeeII
It's funny but most people think the WMDead Enders are the most embarrassing aspect of FR.

I think the most comical.
162 posted on 01/30/2004 2:40:42 PM PST by JohnGalt (The Iraq Hawk: An Appeaser to Real Invaders, Caution: Easily Frightened, Not Good With Money)
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To: TankerKC
This is a conservative web site so you can take your UN globalooney over to DU.

Do you have any children over in Iraq?

Why do employ the pronoun 'we'? Are you posting from Iraq or Afgahanistan?
163 posted on 01/30/2004 2:42:06 PM PST by JohnGalt (The Iraq Hawk: An Appeaser to Real Invaders, Caution: Easily Frightened, Not Good With Money)
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To: HenryLeeII
You seem to be a Marxist, but can you link me to where I wrote "Johnny Cash and Ken Kesey were right-wing purists"?

164 posted on 01/30/2004 2:44:46 PM PST by JohnGalt (The Iraq Hawk: An Appeaser to Real Invaders, Caution: Easily Frightened, Not Good With Money)
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To: JohnGalt
You seem to be a Marxist [and you seem to be mentally insane], but can you link me to where I wrote "Johnny Cash and Ken Kesey were right-wing purists

Yes...

[Reply #114]: In the meantime, the current brand of PC conservatism has a massive aesthetics problem. While we have Braveheart, Legends of the Fall, and The Outlaw Josey Wales, they have crappy pulp like Independence Day.

We have Ken Kesey, Tom Wolfe, Thomas Fleming (the historian), they have a plagerist, Stephen Ambrose and what...a pulp novelist in Tom Clancy?

We get Murray Rothbard and HL Mencken; they get who, Bill Buckley? Fred Barnes? David Frum?

Their version of beauty is a landing on an Air Craft carrier; ours, the humility of Rembrandts depictions of the Crucifixion. We get Mel Gibson; what do they get?

We get Southern military heroes like Lee and Jackson, they get fanciful tales of the foreign monsters FDR slew. We get Johnny Cash; they get, who, Toby Keith?

...and:

[Reply #118]: I can tell you, Johnny Cash is an icon of the Old Right.

165 posted on 01/30/2004 3:00:42 PM PST by HenryLeeII
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To: HenryLeeII
Using logic in debate with Galt's kind is futile

So I've discovered. Nice job on #140, btw.

166 posted on 01/30/2004 3:09:14 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: JohnGalt
This is a conservative web site so you can take your UN globalooney over to DU.

Comprehension is not your strong suit.

Do you have any children over in Iraq?

No. Do you? Check my profile--23 years in the military--I've been there and done that. My son starts ROTC in the fall and he'll do his time, too. Did you have a point in asking this?

Why do employ the pronoun 'we'? Are you posting from Iraq or Afgahanistan?

No. Are you?

167 posted on 01/30/2004 5:47:07 PM PST by TankerKC (My life is a Country Song.)
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To: HenryLeeII
LOL.
168 posted on 01/31/2004 5:32:55 AM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: JohnGalt
It's funny but most people think the WMDead Enders are the most embarrassing aspect of FR.

The word 'most' implies more a majority of a set (50% +1), so I take it that you've conducted a scientific survey to back up this contention, or is it simply a majority of the voices you hear? More likely its just the same drivel you spout off continuously.

Have you bothered reading the text of David Kay's statement to Congress? If you have, then you know that he whole-heartedly agrees with President Bush's decision to go to war based on the evidence that was known before the war and what has been learned after. He even went so far as to say that Iraq may have been more dangerous than previously believed based on what has been learned since the end of the war.

169 posted on 02/02/2004 6:23:36 AM PST by HenryLeeII
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To: TankerKC
TankerKC:
First of all, thank you for your service to your country, and may your son be watched over and return safely from the endeavors he has chosen for a career.

Because I, like many on this forum, have never served in the military much less seen combat, we (for the most part) tend to view war as the last option out of respect for our laws, customs, and for those who serve, and of course it became in that last option in Iraq. When the U.S. and its allies, and the U.N. as well, made repeated threats and requests and used enticements such as the oil-for-food program, and were always rebuffed by the madman dictator, war became the only viable solution.

However, there are malcontencts like JohnGalt who ignore facts, are incapable of logical reasoning, and only feel a sense of importance when they spout off non-sensical drivel. He has no idea of what he's talking about and should just be ignored. But for some reason, no matter how hard I try to ignore him, I always end up responding to him. Pay him no mind because he doesn't have one...

170 posted on 02/02/2004 6:36:40 AM PST by HenryLeeII
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To: HenryLeeII
Correction: The word 'most' implies more a majority of a set (50% +1)...
171 posted on 02/02/2004 7:25:44 AM PST by HenryLeeII
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To: HenryLeeII
Yeah, I see that he hasn't returned...just sets a fire and runs. I'm still curious if JG has been in the military. I inferred from his comments that I am not allowed to have a opinion unless I was currently "in the fight."
172 posted on 02/03/2004 10:09:39 AM PST by TankerKC (My life is a Country Song.)
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To: TankerKC
Yeah, I see that he hasn't returned...just sets a fire and runs. I'm still curious if JG has been in the military. I inferred from his comments that I am not allowed to have a opinion unless I was currently "in the fight."

No, he isn't a military man. With his mentality I don't think they would have kept him around, now that the need for literal cannon fodder is not so great. He lists military ancestors on his bio page, but nothing for himself. IIRC, I think I remember him saying that he sells software over the phone or something like that...

173 posted on 02/03/2004 10:24:28 AM PST by HenryLeeII
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