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Reality has repudiated nearly all of Bush’s pre-war assumptions about Iraq. Bush’s own David Kay, head of the Iraq Survey Group that scoured Iraq for WMD, told Congress on Oct. 2 that his group has found no direct evidence of weapons or weapons programs. Bush finally admitted last month that “we’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th,” even though White House rhetoric was responsible for convincing 70 percent of Americans otherwise...
...does not mean the political fight will end soon. One of the reasons the fight feels even uglier and more desperate than usual is that it comes at a time when almost every political institution seems tarnished. To the extent that the Bush Administration has to answer for David Kay's failure to find any WMD in Iraq, its answer is that fault lies with the shortcomings of the intelligence community. The spies, for their part, have been quick to remind their allies on Capitol Hill of the White House's and hard-liners' refusal to listen to their footnotes...
...Kay's team did make a few disturbing discoveries, which Bush seized on as sufficient proof that Saddam was "a danger to the world" and that the war was justified. Kay's team discovered a vial hidden in a scientist's home containing a biological agent, as well as evidence that in 2001 Saddam paid $10 million in an effort to buy prohibited missile technology from North Korea. (The equipment was never delivered.) Kay also said an Iraqi scientist had been shot and another Iraqi killed after cooperating with inspectors, although that claim was news to a former official...
After three months of searching, the top U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq has come back with news that all sides are using as an occasion for "I told you so." In an interim report to Congress, David Kay said his 1,200-member inspection team had "not yet found stocks" of illicit weapons--no large caches of poison gas or germ agents, no proof that Saddam was remotely close to reconstituting a nuclear program and no evidence of an attempt to buy uranium from Africa. In fact, the report said an African country had offered uranium to Iraq, but Saddam...
Arnie's Win a Sign of U.S. Discontent - The rejection of the status quo which led to the California result has echoes all across the country, writes the BBC's Katty Kay...