Wednesday, January 28, 2004
David Kay's latest startling admission.
David Kay, recently resigned head of US weapons inspections in Iraq, made a stunning admission tonight on Wolf Blitzer's CNN show.
Is David Kay saying he'd rather George Bush was proved correct than to have fewer weapons of mass destruction in the world? Weapons that could easily have fallen into the hands of terrorists by now (as the Bush administration repeatedly suggested could happen). Is he?
Is he?
Speaking of Blitzer, never has a man made more of a pathetic spectacle of himself than he did while interviewing Kay. Here's just one example:
And by the way, we have already heard the opinion expressed by David Kay on Blitzer's show repeated in the media several times as being that he felt the administration did not pressure the intelligence community. But Kay didn't say that. He said there was "no evidence" of it.
He's no dummy, this David Kay.
BLITZER: The man who is replacing you, Charles Duelfer, is a good man. He knows the subject quite well. Is it possible, when the dust settles, do you think, months from now, a year from now, he'll find weapons of mass destruction?He does? Why?
KAY: Actually, I hope so.
Is David Kay saying he'd rather George Bush was proved correct than to have fewer weapons of mass destruction in the world? Weapons that could easily have fallen into the hands of terrorists by now (as the Bush administration repeatedly suggested could happen). Is he?
Is he?
Speaking of Blitzer, never has a man made more of a pathetic spectacle of himself than he did while interviewing Kay. Here's just one example:
BLITZER: In 1998, when Bill Clinton was still in the White House -- I was covering the White House in those days -- they had no doubt whatsoever that there were stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction inside Iraq.Get it? The "very important issue" to Wolf isn't that the country went to war on false pretenses, or that our intelligence community is inept, or that the president may have knowingly misled the country and the U.N--no, the important issue is that some Democrats are trying to point it out.
KAY: That's right. And I think that's the best evidence of a systemic problem, as opposed to pressure from one political party or the other to
(CROSSTALK)
BLITZER: Well, this is a very important issue, because a lot of Democrats, Democratic presidential candidates, members of the committee, the Senate Armed Services Committee -- you testified before them today -- they believe that the career professionals in the intelligence community, the military, the DIA, the CIA, they believe they were pressured by Vice President Dick Cheney, by Donald Rumsfeld, by the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, the president himself, to come up with evidence that simply didn't exist.
KAY: Wolf, no evidence of that.
And by the way, we have already heard the opinion expressed by David Kay on Blitzer's show repeated in the media several times as being that he felt the administration did not pressure the intelligence community. But Kay didn't say that. He said there was "no evidence" of it.
He's no dummy, this David Kay.
