[kingu]

One critical admission that keeps getting skipped by the media. British and American intelligence agencies were convinced that Saddam had WMDs; but so was Saddam. His loyal scientists took money for weapons programs and then never developed the promised weapons.

How many times did we hear the chatter of a line around Baghdad where chemical weapons would be used? How many Iraqis did reporters film with gas masks? Caches of biowarfare protection suits and more masks?

David Kay was right - we got lucky. Saddam wanted those WMDs and was obviously prepared to use them; unfortunately for the former Iraqi leader, he got scammed.

[MEG33]

I have written a lot on Kay's testimony so I'll just say this.

He said if you know how hard it was on the soldiers to wear those awful chemical weapons suits,you cannot understand how profound the belief was that Saddam had the weapons and the threat of his using them was severe.

Kay believed it ,too.

He said because Saddam was off writing romance novels,paying scientists without followup,the nation was chaotic and selling technology was a real danger.He was more dangerous than we thought,he said.