During the State of the Union address last year the president got into trouble for saying a few things that turned out not to be true. Now it turns out he either lied again or is the most ill-informed president in modern times. This is what he said last week about weapons in Iraq:
Already the Kay Report identified dozens of weapons of mass destruction-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations.
I’m not sure what weapons of mass destruction-related program activities are, but ok. The problem with the statement concerns what David Kay (author of the above mentioned Kay Report) told the media when he resigned this week as the US-point person searching for weapons in Iraq.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former chief U.S. arms hunter David Kay has concluded Iraq had no stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons, a potential embarrassment for President George W. Bush, and Secretary of State Colin Powell has said it is an open question if they'd be found.Kay told Reuters by telephone shortly after stepping down from his post on Friday he had concluded there were no such stockpiles to be found.
"I don't think they existed," Kay said. "What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last (1991) Gulf War, and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s," he said."I think we have found probably 85 percent of what we're going to find," said Kay, who returned from Iraq in December and told the CIA he would not be going back.
"I think the best evidence is that they did not resume large-scale production and that's what we're really talking about," Kay said.
That’s right: the man Bush sent to Iraq to find all those illegal weapons has concluded there aren’t any and quit his job.
You can only conclude that Bush doesn’t know the different between fact and fiction. That’s pretty scary in a commander-in-chief.
