WP: King: "I was the skunk at the party."

[Ilsa]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2455-2003Aug29.html?referrer=emailarticle

Prove the Weapons Case

By Colbert I. King
Saturday, August 30, 2003; Page A29


"When I was working for Henry , the president was signing 500 letters a week to widows," said L. Paul Bremer, administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, during an interview this week with Washington Post editors and reporters. Bremer cited Richard Nixon's volume of sympathy notes to families of U.S. troops killed in Vietnam to suggest that the current rate of U.S. soldiers' deaths in Iraq -- one every two days since May 1 -- pales against the Vietnam death toll, isn't a strategic problem for U.S. forces and won't fuel sentiment to get out of Iraq. "I do not believe that the American people are quitters," he told us.
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For nearly an hour, the dapper and sharp-witted Bremer fielded a range of questions about the American occupation, reconstruction costs, terrorist threats, the U.S.-appointed 25-member Iraqi Governing Council and the U.N. role in postwar Iraq. But as the interview drew to a close, one topic had not come up. So it fell to me to raise the unmentionable with the U.S. occupation chief: How goes the search for weapons of mass destruction?

I was the skunk at the party.

Bremer didn't say much beyond the fact that David Kay has about 1,200 people in Iraq working for him on weapons of mass destruction. Bremer indicated the team was making progress. And in a comment I found pregnant with significance, Bremer said he was confident they would find evidence of the biological and chemical "programs." Left unsaid was whether Kay and company would get beyond discovering "evidence of . . . programs" and actually find the weapons, there being a difference between the two. The word "nuclear," by the way, never passed Bremer's lips.

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[Old and In the Way]

1. Anyone know or understand why our "government" chose to

outsource this operation to a non-governmental entity (but who just so happens to have a very large stake in the MI complex for the corporation he runs)?

This has international consequences...and we have what amounts to a NON-ACCOUNTABLE person making the case for WMD without oversight.

There is something very wrong with this picture....

[jbfam4]

2. Think more people

would read this if you had posted; Prove the weapons case.

[Ilsa]

3. I almost did.

But I thought the other line was the attention grabber. I'll try to edit it slightly.

On Edit: Too Late.

[TennesseeWalker]

4. Kick

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