From: Gene McAloon 

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 13:59:40 -0700, Randall Parker
 wrote:

>Thoughtful of you to preface your pure fantasy with the "pure fantasy"
>label.
>
>As David Kay points out, it took the UNSCOM inspectors 4 year to find
>the bioweapons program because, yes, Saddam really did hinder and hide
>stuff:
>    http://www.parapundit.com/archives/000902.html#000902
>
>Per Alhmark and David Kay certainly had their inspectors physically
>obstructed by the Iraqis from doing their jobs:
>     http://www.parapundit.com/archives/000511.html#000511

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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