Kay's Report Casts Doubt on Iraqi Weapons

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WASHINGTON -- On the eve of war, President Bush told the nation that intelligence left no doubt Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. It was among the final assertions of an 18-month campaign by his administration to cast Iraqi President Saddam Hussein as a serious and imminent threat.

Six months later, there are doubts.

Last week, the CIA's chief weapons hunter, David Kay, told Congress: "We have not yet found stocks of weapons, but we are not yet at the point where we can say definitively either that such weapon stocks do not exist, or that they existed before the war and our only task is to find where they have gone."

On March 17, two days before the war, Bush said, "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."

Kay presented an interim report Thursday that disclosed findings of his search teams. He argued against drawing final conclusions, saying he will be able to provide a full picture on Iraq's weapons programs in six to nine months.

So far Bush's prewar assertion is one of many that have not been validated by discoveries in Iraq.

A look at some:

(What follows is a great little comparison of pre-war statements with what has turned up as of now....)

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-us-iraq-weapons,0,7501493.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

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1. What about the vial of Saddam's botox?

And all that dual use sand.

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2. I have found no conclusive proof...

...that 10 million dollars and a beatiful woman encased in carbonite aren't buried under my floorboards. Granted, to date I've found nothing to substantiate this, but I'm going to keep looking.