Posted by Sir Four at 2:34pm Jul 19 '04David Kay, former pro-war US official who was sent to Iraq to find WMDs post-war and came up empty, is now saying that Bush and Blair should have known that the situation in Iraq did not justify war:
I will say this again: The buck stops with the president. He is responsible for leading us falsely into war. I don't want to hear any excuses about him not really lying because he really believed Iraq had WMDs. It quite honestly doesn't matter what he believed. He's the president, and he fucked up. He's got to be held responsible.
David Kay, the former U.S. chief weapons inspector, says George W. Bush and Tony Blair should have realized before going to war that intelligence on Iraqi weapons was weak and did not indicate Saddam Hussein posed a danger to the West, the AP reports.
David Kay resigned from the CIA in January and his conclusion then that Iraq did not have stockpiles of forbidden weapons caused serious problems for both Bush and Blair, undercutting their main justification for war. He told Britain's ITV network that Bush and Blair 'should have been able to tell before the war that the evidence did not exist for drawing the conclusion that Iraq presented a clear, present and imminent threat on the basis of existing weapons of mass destruction. That was not something that required a war,' he said.
I will say this again: The buck stops with the president. He is responsible for leading us falsely into war. I don't want to hear any excuses about him not really lying because he really believed Iraq had WMDs. It quite honestly doesn't matter what he believed. He's the president, and he fucked up. He's got to be held responsible.