During several hours of testimony before the Senate Armed Services
Committee, David Kay did not make Ted Kennedy happy. Kennedy tried
valiantly to get Kay to indict Bush, to say that Bush, et al, had to
have known that WMD weren't a threat to the USA prior to the war. But,
it didn't work. Several other Dems also tried, but it didn't work.
Let's see how many retractions there are to the "Bush lied"
statements. Of course, now many will say that Kay lied. These will
probably be the same people that praised Kay's honesty a few months
ago.

The chairman of the BBC resigned today. Seems it's allegations that
Blair had lied were also false.

From MSNBC News:

WASHINGTON - The former top U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq on
Wednesday encouraged Congress to examine the “fundamental false
analysis” that led to the conclusion that Saddam Hussein possessed
weapons of mass destruction, a primary justification by President Bush
for the war in Iraq. But he reiterated that he did not believe that
intelligence analysts were pressured to draw that conclusion.

“We were almost all wrong,” said David Kay, noting that intelligence
services in France and Germany, both of which opposed war with Iraq,
also were convinced that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction before
the U.S. invasion.

But he told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee that he
found no evidence to suggest that the Bush administration influenced
the intelligence community to inflate the assessment of Saddam’s
arsenal as a pretext to go to war.

Rest snipped. Go to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4049012/

Also from MSNBC:

LONDON - A judge cleared Prime Minister Tony Blair’s administration
Wednesday of any direct involvement in the suicide of a government
expert on Iraqi weapons, but the BBC came under fire for its reporting
of the scandal, prompting its chairman to resign. The British
Broadcasting Corp.’s board of governors said it accepted Gavyn Davies
resignation “with great reluctance and regret."

Blair’s administration was cleared in a report issued by appeals judge
Lord Hutton, who was appointed by Blair to investigate the death of
weapons expert David Kelly.

Snipped. Go to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4080709/

Also in article:

Hutton said the BBC report that Blair’s government had manipulated its
intelligence in an official dossier about Iraq’s weapons was
unfounded. He specifically rebutted the BBC report that the government
had “sexed up” the dossier to bolster its argument for the war in
Iraq.

John H

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