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David Kay's report

Nie Trink Wasser

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instead of posting selected pieces from news outlets, can someone please post the official transcript of Kay's findings ?


I'm tired of hearing the "If Bush finds WMD".

thanks

David Kay: "We have discovered . . . a clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service that contained equipment subject to U.N. monitoring and suitable for continuing chemical and biological weapons research. . . . A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of biological weapons agents, that Iraqi officials . . . were explicitly ordered not to declare to the United Nations. . . . Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home, one of which can be used to produce biological weapons. . . . New research on B(iological) W(eapon)-applicable agents . . . and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the United Nations."

David Kay: "We have discovered . . . documents and equipment, hidden in scientists' homes, that would have been useful in resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation."

David Kay: "We have discovered . . . continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited SCUD variant missiles, a capability maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists have said they were told to conceal from the United Nations. . . . Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1,000 km -- well beyond the 150 km range limit imposed by the United Nations. Missiles of 1,000 km would have allowed Iraq to threaten targets throughout the Middle East. . . . Clandestine attempts between late 1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology related to 1,300 km range ballistic missiles -- probably the No Dong -- 300 km range anti-ship cruise missiles, and other prohibited equipment."
 
And so it continues... black is white, up is down.

Nothing in what you've quoted actually supports Bush's prewar assertion that Iraq was in possession of WMD.

Now the claim is scaled back to talk about plans and capabilities, and a neat little trick of equivalence is being foisted on the public. But the administration asserted that Iraq was actually in possession of actual WMD -- of immediate threat. This is not equivalent.
 

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