- Joined
- Dec 9, 2009
- Messages
- 134,496
- Reaction score
- 14,621
- Location
- Houston, TX
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Conservative
No. That's Kay's personal opinion. I try to focus on fact over opinion:
Two days after resigning as the Bush administration's top weapons inspector in Iraq, David Kay said Sunday that his group found no evidence Iraq had stockpiled unconventional weapons before the U.S.-led invasion in March.
Kay: No evidence Iraq stockpiled WMDs - CNN
He said at the time that he did not believe there had been large-scale production of chemical or biological weapons in Iraq since the end of the first Gulf War in 1991.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | US expert slams WMD 'delusions'
Here's his lede:
Saddam Hussein told an FBI interviewer before he was hanged that he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about appearing weak to Iran, according to declassified accounts of the interviews released yesterday. The former Iraqi president also denounced Osama bin Laden as "a zealot" and said he had no dealings with al-Qaeda.
Iraq, Iran and how the Neocons failed (Part I) | Capital J | JTA - Jewish & Israel News
Kay's expertise is not in political judgments. And it wasn't Kay who use the intel inappropriately. That was the Bush administration.
The former CIA official who coordinated U.S. intelligence on the Middle East until last year has accused the Bush administration of "cherry-picking" intelligence on Iraq to justify a decision it had already reached to go to war, and of ignoring warnings that the country could easily fall into violence and chaos after an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
Ex-CIA Official Faults Use of Data on Iraq - washingtonpost.com
The Pentagon's acting inspector general, Thomas Gimble, told the senate armed services committee that the office headed by Douglas Feith, formerly the number three man at the defence department, took "inappropriate" actions in pushing the al-Qaida connection not backed up by America's intelligence agencies.
Pentagon report condemns misleading Iraq intelligence | World news | guardian.co.uk
These allegations are supported by an annex to the first part of Senate Intelligence Committee's Report of Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq published in July 2004. The review, which was highly critical of the CIA's Iraq intelligence generally but found its judgments were right on the Iraq-al Qaeda relationship, suggests that the OSP, if connected to an "Iraqi intelligence cell" also headed by Douglas Feith which is described in the annex, sought to discredit and cast doubt on CIA analysis in an effort to establish a connection between Saddam Hussein and terrorism. In one instance, in response to a cautious CIA report, "Iraq and al-Qa'eda: A Murky Relationship", the annex relates that "one of the individuals working for the [intelligence cell led by Feith] stated that the June [2002] report, '...should be read for content only - and CIA's interpretation ought to be ignored.'"[5]
Office of Special Plans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I know this is really hard for you to understand, but there were people on both sides that supported the war and it was Democrats that allowed the vote to proceed then supported the resolution. I can post quote after quote and you can counter with other negative quotes but none serve any purpose today.
You can continue to play this out over and over again but here we are almost 8 years after that resolution passed and you are still reliving the reasons to go to war. that does nothing but divert from what we have in the WH right now and the direction this country is headed. Obama record speaks for itself and it is that record that is on display. The choice is clear, continue on the course of massive spending, massive expansion of the govt. and unsustainable debt or we can reverse course and repeal some of that spending. We can cut taxes to spur economic growth and create jobs or we can continue to whine about the past 8 years and make things worse. It is obvious to me what your choice is.