From: Randall Parker 

I intentioanlly included remarks from Per Ahlmark and Charles Duelfer just
so you couldn't dismiss one guy and therefore dismiss the whole argument.
But it has been a while since I argued with you and I forgot that the facts
are irrelevant. Sorry to disturb you with facts.

Gene McAloon wrote:


> Apparently it has never occurred to you to wonder why it was Kay who Bush
> appointed to run the assessment. Given Kay's record, he expected some
> confirmation of his clams about Iraq and WMD.  He didn't get it, ever from
Kay,
> which is why even Republicans in Congress are increasingly skeptical of
Bush's
> claims.
>
> And no, there is not a shred of evidence to support Kay's contention that
Saddam
> hid anything, certainly not his bio-weapons research projects. Those projects
> were dismantled by the first inspection teams under Ekeus. What was found
later
> were scraps of papers and some very small amounts of materials that could be
> used to develop bio-weapons and they were not hidden by Saddam but by a few
> scientists who buried some of the stuff in their backyards or hid it in their
> homes.
>
> Kay is lying no less than Bush. That is also the reason Kay went out of his
way
> to point up in his interim report that Saddam had development programs for
> bio-weapons, only confoundedly he couldn't find any actual bio-weapons.  Of
> course he couldn't. They were removed, what little there was of them, years
ago.
> But Kay's report did give enough to Bush so that Bush could claim that the
> interim report supported his claims. It didn't and everyone but you seems to
be
> aware of that. If Bush has an excuse for being so obtuse, what is yours?
Well,
> don't bother answering that. We all know where you are coming from.
>

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