Kay Asks Why U.S. Thought Iraq Had WMD

Associated Press via The Grand Forks Herald ^ | 01/25/2004 | SCOTT LINDLAW

[Merdoug]

"Did someone get to him too?"
Yeah. And they got to Powell,...and all the other people who said that there were never WMD. There were never any WMD; he used them up on his own people. When are some Folks here going to face the truth? Bush did not go to war for WMD. I STILL do not know why he did it.

[familyofman]

'When are some Folks here going to face the truth? Bush did not go to war for WMD. I STILL do not know why he did it.'

Not knowing why any POTUS takes the country to war is a really scary proposition. If going to war, resulting in the death of US servicepeople, can be done on cloudy premises - we are in BIG TROUBLE my friends. Right here in River City, trouble with a capital T!!!!
War is not something to go into without a very clear reason & purpose & with the full spport of the American people. The "intlligence" community of the US & the world has some major explaining to do. How in the world did they all get it sooo wrong?

[AppyPappy]

Note: During the war, Fox News showed a warehouse that contained chemical dispersal weapons with Russian writing on it.

I guess Kay missed the Iran War and the first Gulf War

[Dilbert56]

Cheney warned in March 2003, three days before the invasion: "We believe he (Saddam) has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons."

This is the slimiest of deceptions by the author. Five times in that interview the Vice President said nuclear weapons programs. One time he left the "programs" off and that's the sentence he/she lifts. Completely misleading. That's the current state of the "journalism" wing of the entertainment industry.

[DoctorMichael]

"..........Tenent had only been on the job for a couple/three weeks before 9/11........."

Correct if I'm wrong here, but........................

(1) Tenet served as CIA Director John M. Deutch's deputy from 1995 to 1996 and became director in July 1997 after Anthony Lake withdrew from consideration. George John Tenet was sworn in as Director of Central Intelligence on 11 July 1997.

(2) Tenent was REAPPOINTED by Dubya at the beginning of his administration. Tenet's reappointment was opposed by some conservatives, particularly Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Tenet is the first director in 28 years to remain in office after the White House switched parties.

(3) Tenet is also the longest-serving director since William H. Webster bridged the gap between the Reagan and Bush administrations and served a little over four years from 1987 to 1991.

".........I do not know if he will stay for a second term. I would not.........."

My previous comment stands: "This clown dropped the ball on 911.......".

In fact, his resignation should be asked for IMMEDIATELY and someone more competent should be hired. He should not be allowed to leave in his own time-frame, but instead in the President's.

[BigSkyFreeper]

They are facing facts, they just don't want Bush re-elected, which is why they media spins this whole story as if we didn't find any WMD.

[Destructor]

So true! This a reflection of the liberals desperate desire to regain power! Nothing else matters to them!!

[colorado tanker]

What Kay is saying is being distorted by the media. If you read his actual remarks he is saying now what he said in his report and in his Congresssional testimony - he couldn't find weapons stocks, inventories. He found the weapons programs. He found production ability, labs and scientists for the chemical program; he found scientists who were keeping referent biological strains away from UN inspectors; and he found Saddam was trying to re-start the nuclear program. Kay hasn't changed his story, but the press spun his interim report just like they're spinning this. They change no WMD stocks to no WMD.

What I want to know is where are the stocks the UN said were in Iraq in 1997? Still hidden? In Syria? Destroyed?

[BigSkyFreeper]

And therein lies the platform by which each Democratic candidate is running on. Hate Bush ad infinitum, and regain power at any cost, even if you have to shoot your foot to do it. It's very simple. There's nothing inspiring in their stump speeches, unless higher taxes and ceding power to the UN gets you all jacked up to want to go to the polls.

[Cold Heat]

LOLOL!

Actually I agree with you on all points.

I am afraid that I had him confusedwith the FBI director Muller.

I stand corrected.