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A big day for Bush and Blair and Sen. Kennedy (little off topic)
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 On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay! |