Scott Ritter: Not Everyone Got it Wrong on Iraq's Weapons

[Dudley_DUright]

'We were all wrong," David Kay, the Bush administration's former top weapons sleuth in Iraq, recently told members of Congress after acknowledging that there were probably no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Kay insisted that the blame for the failure to find any such weapons lay with the U.S. intelligence community, which, according to Kay, provided inaccurate assessments.

The Kay remarks appear to be an attempt to spin potentially damaging data to the political advantage of President George W. Bush.

The president's decision to create an "independent commission" to investigate this intelligence failure only reinforces this suspicion, since such a commission would only be given the mandate to examine intelligence data, and not the policies and decision-making processes that made use of that data. More disturbing, the commission's findings would be delayed until late fall, after the November presidential election.

The fact, independent of the findings of any commission, is that not everyone was wrong.

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http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0206-06.htm

[jbfam4]

1. Great article...

[mac2]

2. Others were right

Millions around the world were out in the streets protesting the pre-emptive plan to go after Iraq. The "unwilling" countries were against it. Scott Ritter an x-Un inspector said no WMD of any consequence.

Kucinich and the Progressive members of Congress were against it.

We killed innocent people, destroyed their country, put ourselves in debt because corruption and fruad, took away our freedoms, ruined our image in the world..to get one man. The man...Suddam put into power by the Bush/Reagan crime family.

It's a game using human life for power and profit. The boogeymen? Bin Ladin and Suddam who themselves said, they didn't do 9/11. Both friends of the Bush gang. Suddam a bad guy and worth removing? How about those bad guys all around the world...like Bush (who may have been involved in 9/11 or at least allowed it to happen!)????

:-(