Regime ordered chemical attack, investigator says

[the_sam]

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/220/nation/Regime_ordered_chemical_attack_investigator_says%2B.shtml

WASHINGTON -- A top Bush administration weapons investigator told Congress in closed testimony last week that he has uncovered solid information from interviews, documents, and physical evidence that Iraqi military forces were ordered to attack US troops with chemical weapons, but did not have the time or capability to follow through, according to senior defense and intelligence officials.

The alleged findings by David Kay, a former UN weapons inspector now working for the United States, would buttress the administration's claim that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was concealing weapons of mass destruction -- a key component of President Bush's case for war that has since fallen into dispute.

Kay's report acknowledged that his team of 1,400 investigators had not yet found any such weapons, raising the possibility that Hussein either hid them, destroyed them, or was simply bluffing in his orders to the Republican Guard.

[Dover]

1. If they didn't have the time to follow through with their use, then they

also didn't have time to hide or destroy them.

So much for BUTTressing.

We all know who's bluffing. All this misadminstration is holding is a pair of idiots.

[the_sam]

2. David Kay is a liar

As the article makes apparent, even his former colleagues don't trust him.

[PurityOfEssence]

3. Proof, I tell you, proof! I tell you it's proof, so that proves it!

About 86 proof on the banks of some overstocked hatchery somewhere, that is.

Usually when building a house of cards, one brings cards.

That's it, it's a non-stop drumbeat of mindsucking flummery to shatter all will and ability for reasoning. It's the propaganda equivalent of those rotating wires on the top of billboards that keep the pigeons from being able to sit.

[Rose Siding]

7. LOL! That does it

They're about to wear me down. I *almost* believed this one. They're relentless!

NOT

[Paschall]

4. David Kay has been spewing the official ShrubCo line for a while

<snips> There should be no doubt that Iraq, under Saddam, continues to seek nuclear weapons capability and that given the time it will devote the resources and technical manpower necessary to reach that goal. ... To allow Saddam the time to develop his WMD weapons and to come up with novel means of delivery it to accept the almost certainty of a successful first attack against the US and its friends. ... If there were ever a psychological campaign that either was not fought or misfired, it has been the US effort to make the states of the Gulf and our European and Asian allies understand how much more dangerous the future is about to become as Iraq rebuilds its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, the Iranians further accelerate their own efforts, and the rest of the region scrambles for political and military protection. ... The re-introduction of UN inspectors, now called UNMOVIC, not UNSCOM, into Iraq may well result not in constraining Iraq’s WMD ambitions, but freeing them of all restraint. ... What is clear is that unless we take immediate steps to address the issue of removing the Saddam’s regime from power in Iraq, we will soon face a nuclear armed and embolden Saddam. With time, and we can never be sure of how long that will be, Saddam will be able to intimidate his neighbors with nuclear weapons and find the means to use them against the United States. ... Absence the forceful removal of Saddam, unambiguous certainty as to the status of his WMD programs is likely to come only after the first use of these weapons against the United States and its friends. This is a very high price to pay - potentially many times over the human toll one year ago in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania - for clarity as to the exact status of any nuclear program. </snips>
- David Kay, Former United Nations Chief Nuclear Weapons Inspector In Iraq, United Nations Special Commission On Iraq And International Atomic Energy Association Before The House Armed Services Committee, September 10, 2002

In other words, Kay contributed to the congressional passage of the October 2002 Iraq "war powers" resolution.

[kentuck]

5. Yeah, it only took 2 or 3 days to get to Baghdad...

that wasn't enough time to load the WMDs...even though we were told previously they could have them ready in 45 minutes?????

[IggleDoer]

6. Let's see, we overran their troops in conquoring them ...

And we can't find the chemical weapons they had with them.

Rings hollow!