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Still no WMD, Except for Cheney's Brain
David Kay, lead weapons inspector in Iraq since the war "ended", stated today that Iraq had no WMD at the start of the war. Of several mainstream news sources, only the NY Times and LA Times ran it on their front (web) page tonight. Not CNN, the Washington Post, USA Today, or MSNBC thought this statement worthy of frontpage coverage. Yahoo saw fit to mention Blair's defiance of Kay's statement.
Needless to say, Kay is leaving his post, and the CIA has appointed someone that Bushco hopes might not make such statements. Scott McClellan, Bushco's spokesman said "Yes, we believe he had them, and yes we believe they will be found." Bush may be dissapointed, however, as George Tenet (CIA director) appointed Charles Duelfer, someone who has already said he thinks the chances of finding any WMD in Iraq are "nil." Hmm, could Tenet's pick be payback for the White House outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame?
But really, folks, we should take our lead from America's #2 guy, Dick Cheney. Cheney not only still believes that Osama and Saddam were best buddies, but he stated yesterday on NPR that a couple semi-trailers they found last May constituted "conclusive evidence ... [of] programs for weapons of mass destruction."
You might recall the initial finding of these trailers, which was plastered all over the front pages of every site as the elusive WMD smoking gun. These claims were quickly debunked, however, and have been so repeatedly ever since. They turn out to have more likely been weather stations of some sort. Kay called the initial release of this bogus information "premature and embarrassing", and a "fiasco."
The White House had no comment on Cheney's remarks. Its amazing how Cheney can continue to make these undeniably false claims over and over, yet it does not become headline news everywhere. Don't you think "Vice President Repeatedly Deceives Public on WMD and Iraq link to 9/11" would make a nice headline?
Posted on January 24, 2004 12:19 AM