[alnick]

????? If there were no weapons there, there isn't really a national security risk now is there? So your argument of national security sort of falls flat on its face BTW, where do you think WMD come from, if not WMD programs? Do I know? Do I care? If he wasn't producing them, which Kay now admits, they could have come from previous production or nations friendly to Iraq at a time before the Gulf War. Now I'm not sure we want to start delving into that now do we?

Actually, Kay does NOT admit that Saddam was not producing weapons of mass destruction. Remember those sacks of mislabeled castor beans? I'm sure you do since you insisted that they were harmless.

Kay said that Iraq was working on producing ricin RIGHT UP UNTIL THE END.

And for you to pretend that you aren't aware that WMD programs lead to WMD is -- well, no one is that foolish.

[billbears]

What happened to the stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons that everyone expected to be there?

I don't think they existed.

I think there were stockpiles at the end of the first Gulf War and those were a combination of U.N. inspectors and unilateral Iraqi action got rid of them. I think the best evidence is that they did not resume large-scale production, and that's what we're really talking about, is large stockpiles, not the small. Large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in the period after '95.

Interview with David Kay