Kay claims war "Prudent"!!!

[Eric]

Kay says Iraq war was ‘prudent’

WASHINGTON: David Kay, who recently resigned as the chief US weapons inspector in Iraq, said Tuesday it was “absolutely prudent” for the US to go to war there.

“In fact,” he told NBC television, “I think at the end of the inspection process, we’ll paint a picture of Iraq that was far more dangerous than even we thought it was before the war.”

“It was of a system collapsing. It was a country that had the capability in weapons of mass destruction areas, and terrorists, like ants to honey, were going after it.”

Kay pointed out that prior to the war, the French, the British, the Germans and the UN “all thought Saddam (Hussein) had weapons of mass destruction. Not discovering them tells us we’ve got a more fundamental problem”.

He said, “The tendency to say, well, it must have been pressure from the White House, is absolutely wrong.” Saddam “was putting more money into his nuclear programme, he was pushing ahead his long-range missile programme as hard as he could”.

“We have collected dozens of examples of where he lied to the UN, violated Resolution 1441 and was in material breach,” Kay added. He noted that Saddam “had the intent to acquire these weapons. He invested huge amounts of money in them. The fact is that he wasn’t successful”. —AFP

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-1-2004_pg7_48

 

[Pablo]

Eric - knock it off. We are supposed to think now it's all a pack of lies. Both senators from Ma say so.

I just say there remains something to it. Oh the Bush haters just have to have it be a big lie, they can taste it, feel it, so bad it must be.....

I remain: There was just too much info., from all sources. There is something to it. Not just the CIA. The claimed items are small, really. They are buried or dumped out or moved....

 

[mikep]

Like Pablo said, enough with credible evidence and facts supporting the actions in Iraq. Don't let facts get in the way of peoples right to be partisan and angry. My God man, this is an election year! Where are your manners?

Mikep

 

[needtoknow]

Remember that David Kay was kicked off the UN Weapons Team after about 5 or 6 weeks. He's been this administrations plant for a long time. Thing is even he can't find or invent these weapons. Remember Gulf of Tonkin, that was the administrations lie for going into Vietnam. That sure didn't turn out to be a good thing. When the cause is a lie and people die politians need to be held accountable. 911 was allowed to happen because of FBI, CIA, and airline security failures and blunders, no one has been held responsible yet for those failures. Now we have a war that the Bush administration is saying was more CIA misinformation, yet no one is held responsible. Could it be that if someone was held accountable the truth might come out rather than being buried?

 

[wulimaster]

Originally posted by Eric:
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Kay says
” Saddam “was putting more money into his nuclear programme, he was pushing ahead his long-range missile programme as hard as he could”.

I saw no evidence of long range missiles or program put forth nor any evidence of a nuclear program. Let alone putting more money into one.


“We have collected dozens of examples of where he lied to the UN, violated Resolution 1441 and was in material breach,” Kay added. He noted that Saddam “had the intent to acquire these weapons. He invested huge amounts of money in them. The fact is that he wasn’t successful”. —AFP

I read UN resolution 1441 as well as all the others that pertained to Iraq and didn't see any violation. I believe the missile issue was bogus. You take any missile designed to travel up to the 150km limit and remove the warhead and guidance and it will travel farther. As for all the earlier prewar talk about him violating the UN no fly zone and shooting at US warplanes patrolling the zones. Nowhere in UN R 1441 does it mention noflyzones. As a matter of fact, Iraq was well within its international legal rights to attempt to shoot down any hostile aircraft in its territorial airspace. As are we.

What Kay offers is oppinion and statements not backed up by facts. That is ok because that is how propoganda works. If repeated enough times for the masses then it becomes common knowledge. Everyone knows you don't even debate common knowledge as it has been proven already.

 

[Last_Z]

Wulimaster,
I don't understand you comment. Kay investigated the WMD issue and said there were NOT a single WMD found, BUT that it seemed as if Iraq was working on it. I don't see a bias either way, so what is your point?