 David
Irving comments: SO where does this
leave US Secretary of State Colin
Powell?
Last March 2003
he told the United Nations Security
Council, before the world's television
cameras, that he had National Security
Council (NSA) telephone intercepts of
Iraqi officers congratulating each other
on having hidden the WMD in time to fool
the inspectors of Dr Hans Blix.
He even projected
images of the alleged "transcripts" on the
screen in the UN chamber.
Is Powell a fool -- no,
he can't properly be called that, because
he's Black -- or is he a liar?
Either way, he has made
himself part of a conspiracy to wage an
unprovoked war of aggression -- defined as
a war crime under international law -- and
is responsible for the deaths of countless
thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women,
and children.  
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 London, January 24, 2004 Saddam's
large WMD stockpiles did not exist, admits American
who led hunt From James Bone
in New York THE American who led the hunt
for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) for the past eight months
resigned last night, saying he did not believe
Saddam Hussein had possessed such an arsenal for a
decade. "I don't think they existed," said David
Kay. "What everyone was talking about is
stockpiles produced after the end of the last
[1991] Gulf War and I don't think there was
a large-scale production programme in the
Nineties. "I think there were stockpiles at the end of the
first Gulf War and a combination of UN 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."  Dr
Kay's comments will be deeply embarrassing for both
President Bush and Tony Blair, who
went to war last year to eliminate what they called
the imminent threat posed by Saddam's alleged
chemical, biological and nuclear weaponry. They are
also bad timing for the Prime Minister, coming days
before the publication of the Hutton report.
Robin Cook, the former Foreign Secretary,
told The Times that Tony Blair must now
admit he was wrong about Iraq's weapons of mass
destruction. Mr Cook said: "I have never doubted that Tony Blair
acted in good faith but he cannot now go on
insisting he was right, Next week, in his
response to the Hutton report, is a good
opportunity to put the record straight and to
recognise that mistakes were made."  Just
two days ago Dick Cheney, the US
Vice-President, repeated his conviction that the
weapons existed, telling a radio interviewer: "It's
going to take some additional considerable period
of time in order to look in all of the cubby holes
and ammo dumps in Iraq, where you might expect to
find something like that." But last night the
Administration signalled a significant downgrading
of the hunt when it appointed a replacement for Dr
Kay who has said publicly that he does not believe
any weapons of mass destruction will be found.
Charles Duelfer, a former top UN weapons
inspector in Iraq and a frequent critic of Dr Kay's
approach, said in a TV television interview this
month: "The prospect of finding chemical weapons,
biological weapons is close to nil at this point."
He added that the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group (ISG)
headed by Dr Kay had been "talking to a lot of
Iraqi scientists - anyone who has known where they
are, they've spoken to. They've had every incentive
to show them where they are, and they have come up
with nothing."
IN what would be a big climbdown, the
Administration also appeared to be on the verge of
bowing to Shia pressure by changing its plans for
choosing a government to assume power in Iraq this
summer. The White House said it wanted the United
Nations to send a team to Iraq to examine the
feasibility of holding elections so soon. Under
Washington's existing plans, power would be handed
to a transitional government appointed by caususes
on July 1, with proper elections next year. Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the spiritual
leader of Iraq's Shia majority, ordered a halt to
recent street demonstrations in favour of elections
to encourage the UN to send a team. "Direct
elections are possible," said Ahmad Chalabi,
a [Quisling]
member of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council
with very close ties to Washington. Washington has been quietly reducing the size of
the 1,400-strong ISG, and has reassigned dozens of
linguists to the counter-insurgency effort.
 Dr Kay was viewed as a hawk who expected to find
stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in
Iraq. In a report to Congress last October, he
presented evidence of illicit weapons programmes in
Iraq but said his team had found no actual weapons
of mass destruction (WMD). Right: seeking inspiration
>> 
...on this website, about
David Kay's search 
Sept
2003: Intelligence claims of huge Iraqi
stockpiles were wrong, says report. The hunt for
weapons of mass destruction yields -
nothing-
Sept 2003: Britain
and US will back down over WMDs
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AJC Oct 2003: Did
Bush officials exaggerate and distort prewar
evidence about Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction? Or were they, like the rest of us,
simply the victims of poor intelligence work by
the CIA and other agencies?
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Oct 2003: Washington
Post Wrong Path to War | and our comment, by
Stephen Sniegoski: More on War
Liberalism
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Stephen
Sniegoski has this comment on the latest 'WMD
Bluff Theory.'
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