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...various media sources this week that Kay's group has found no unconventional weapons or laboratories to build them, despite their freedom of access throughout Iraq and cooperation from officials of Saddam's regime. Instead, it will show documentary and other evidence suggesting that Saddam's regime harbored the intent to eventually reconstitute its biological and chemical weapons production programs, and had refined the know-how and some of the dual-use infrastructure that would allow it to do so once freed of international scrutiny. Even then, a CIA spokesman says, the report won't reach firm conclusions...
...inconclusive evidence of intent, know-how and the capacity to build weapons of mass destruction does not quite measure up to President Bush's claim, in his final ultimatum to Iraq on March 19, that "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." Nor to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's claim, on March 30 that "We know where the WMDs are; they're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad." Nor, for that matter, to Secretary of State Colin Powell...
...reporting were deliberate concealment or based on the vagaries of a Stalinist bureaucracy in which accounting was routinely exaggerated to please superiors. The question of why Saddam continued to play cat-and-mouse games with the inspectors even if he had destroyed his weapons may relate to his intent to reconstitute his programs. Kay's group will likely show evidence that Saddam's regime worked to keep as much as possible of the infrastructure of a chemical and biological weapons program in place, so that such programs could be rebuilt later. This would square with the oft-cited testimony...
...know that sounds an awful like a sexual metaphor, but that truly was not my intent...
...It’s just a matter of having to put resources in to fix the problem,” he said. “Our intent is to push it up on their priorities...