A Tangled Web

READ THE EVIDENCE!



The “rush to judgement” by the political left and their media courtiers following the evidence given to the Senate Armed Services Committee by David Kay, the CIA’s chief weapons Inspector in Iraq until last week, flies in the face of what Dr. Kay actually said! No surprises there the, but it might be worthwhile to point them out anyway!



The media have seized on the comment that Iraq didn’t have “large stockpiles of newly produced weapons of mass destruction” as confirmation in their fevered minds that the war was wrong. No blood for oil has been justified. The BBC, having been thrashed by Hutton over claims that the UK government lied over WMD now turn their broken guns on the US! But David Kay said much more than this, and a far from accurate picture has been presented, all aimed at propping up the wacko anti-war brigade.



It is a matter of fact that Saddam had chemical and biological WMD in 1998. He refused to provide any documentation that he had destroyed these WMD’s in the intervening period before the US liberation in 2003.



Dr. Kay did not conclude that Saddam was any less a threat to U.S. national security than originally estimated by President George Bush. He said "I actually think this may be one of those cases where it was even more dangerous than we thought. I think when we have the complete record you're going to discover that after 1998 it became a regime that was totally corrupt. Individuals were out for their own protection. And in a world where we know others are seeking WMD, the likelihood...of a seller and a buyer meeting up would have made that a far more dangerous country than even we anticipated...." It was this prospect of Saddam and his minions brokering biological or nuclear WMD to surrogate factions like al-Qa'eda that led to the liberation of Iraq by the U.S.-led coalition last year.



"We know that terrorists were passing through Iraq," Dr. Kay said. "And now we know that there was little control over Iraq's weapons capabilities. ... Iraq was a very dangerous place."



Dr. Kay also made it clear that “If you read the total body of intelligence in the last 12 to 15 years that flowed on Iraq, I quite frankly think it would be hard to come to a conclusion other than that Iraq was a gathering, serious threat to the world with regard to WMD."



Dr Kay added “We know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD program." Kay added, ominously, "Precisely what went to Syria, and what has happened to it, is a major issue that needs to be resolved." Silence from the BBC on that point.



Hilary Clinton, questioning Dr. Kay asked “ I think that rightly does raise questions that we should be examining about whether or not the U.N. inspection process pursuant to 1441 might not also have worked without the loss of life that we have confronted both among our own young men and women, as well as Iraqis."



Dr Kay replied by informing her that a number of Iraqis had come forward and said, 'We did not tell the UN about what we were hiding, nor would we have told the UN because we would run the risk of our [losing our own lives]' -- I think we have learned things that no UN inspector would have ever learned given the terror regime of Saddam.... Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of Resolution 1441. ... Iraq was in clear and material violation of 1441. ... So there was a lot they wanted to hide because it showed what they were doing that was illegal. I hope we find even more evidence of that."



Dr Kay also said that “There's still going to be an unresolvable ambiguity about what happened. [Some of the looting] was designed by [Saddam's] security services to cover the [WMD] tracks."



The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, having listened to all the evidence presented to him said, "Anyone who believes otherwise has not done their homework and certainly was not listening to Dr. Kay."



Once again, the frenzied gnashing of leftist teeth distracts from the underlining reality that we were 100% right to go to war against the Saddamite dictatorship. The world is a safer place for the brave actions of the US and its many allies.