Comments on: DAVID KAY REDUX

By: mal

mal — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/

this makes sense to me.

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

It's difficult to argue that something would have been used if its very existence during the period in question is so much in doubt

By: Robert Tagorda

Robert Tagorda — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Good stuff, James. Kay also made the same case this past weekend on NPR.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Jane: True. But the fears were perfectly sound. We know he had chemical and biological weapons as early as the 1980s, since he actually used them against both Iran and the Kurds. We know he had a nuclear program that the Israelis took out at Osirik in 1981(?) and another one we found after Desert Storm. He threw UN inspectors out in the 1990s and did nothing to establish what happened to his stockpiles a year ago when the inspectors were allowed back in.

By: mal

mal — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

http://www.pejmanesque.com/archives/005666.html

excellent response

By: bryan

bryan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Apparently, there was an interview on the today show today with Matt Lauer where Kay said that the president was right to go to war, and that the entire world basically had the same intelligence and thought that Iraq had WMDs. But no one guessed that Saddam was getting jobbed by his scientists.

It would be good to find a transcript of this. I heard it on Rush Limbaugh today while trying to navigate icy roads.

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