[cookcounty]

"Kay: I believe the effort to this point has been sufficiently intense that it is highly unlikely there were large stockpiles of chem and bio weapons. "

This is the question I'd like to see posed:

Mr. Kay, I'm curious about the definition of the term "large stockpiles." Would you consider 1 barrel of VX, an amount capable of killing a half-million people, a "large stockpile"? How many barrels would it take to qualify as "large."?

[cyncooper]

Levin asked about small stockpiles, too.

Kay said they found none, but evidence that they were capable of producing such.

[plain talk]

You're right. The physical size of a large stockpile of biological weapons would be extremely small. One could hide them in the desert and we might never find them.

[WOSG]

This is the question I'd like to see posed: Mr. Kay, I'm curious about the definition of the term "large stockpiles." Would you consider 1 barrel of VX, an amount capable of killing a half-million people, a "large stockpile"? How many barrels would it take to qualify as "large."?

Good Question! I think the answer is - it could fit in a garage.

I'd followup and ask "You found that they were actively pursuing the ability stabilise VX nerve gas so they could store it, right?" "Right" "If they did that, at what time could our intelligence determine whether they had it or not?" "That is unclear"

"SO just as our intelligence could not be sure they did have it, it could not be sure they did not have it, so long as they had those programs?" "Correct"

"Given that, and given the evidence for the weapons programs, is it not a reasonable conclusion that we took to determine that Saddam had those weapons, since he had weapons programs trying to build them?" "Yes, it would be a logical conclusion. What we found so far indicates that Saddam Hussein strongly desired these weapons, but was not as successful as we estimated."

"Last question, prior to the war, leaders spoke of the tons of anthrax not accounted for. Are they still unaccounted for?" "Yes"