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...were almost all wrong." David Kay, chief U.S. weapons inspector, on intelligence gathered prior to the Iraq war claiming that the country had weapons of mass destruction...
...think they existed ... I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s." DAVID KAY, stepping down as leader of the U.S. hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, saying his work is finished...
...also keep the story churning. But Blair's real vulnerability is not that the Kelly affair will keep getting rehashed but that no WMD have been found in Iraq. That has corroded public trust in his judgment. The admission last week by the U.S.'s chief WMD hunter, David Kay, that they probably didn't exist in the first place means that Britain went to war on a false premise, which Blair insisted was true. Even if he believed it at the time, he owes his people an accounting now. The Tories and Liberal Democrats have renewed their calls...
...Kay's comments, of course, are a refreshing departure for a man, who as Slate's Fred Kaplan notes, had mastered the art of building castles out of thin air, artfully choosing his words to allow administration sound-bite authors to imply that WMD evidence was imminent. Kay did, of course, do his former employers the service of trying to pin the blame for going to war under false pretenses onto the CIA. That seems to be the White House fallback position, too, although Press Secretary Scott McClellan gamely suggests that Kay's conclusion may be "premature" - in other words...
...only was U.S. diplomatic influence was severely damaged on the march to war, but that the failure of the invasion to produce the evidence to back Washington's claims has further dented its credibility. That's unlikely to be repaired as long as Cheney is acting as if David Kay had proved the earth was flat...