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Originally posted by Rich
Of coarse he is, everyone knows who David Kay is now, but did you know who he was a year ago? A year ago he was the biggest jackass on any network, Fox included. He'd be on every second day blabbing on about how Saddam has stockpiles of weapons ready to attack America, and how we had to go in immediately for the "safety of America". It was only after that, no surprise, that Bush appointed him to that job to return the favor. Of coarse he has to blame intel, his reputation is already toast, he's defending himself not Bush. PBS aired a great documentary by the BBC, following him around Iraq finding nothing and showing clips of his interviews before and after the war. It was priceless. 
He's actually the one who decided to call those helium tanks "mobile chemical weapons factories" or whatever. That was probably Powell's most convincing argument to the UN (not saying much), and then Kay proved himself wrong as soon as he got there. David Kay is probably the biggest joke on the planet right now.
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I know who he is and he fully admits that he originally believed the intel and now he believes that the intel assessment of Saddam's WMD capabilities were wrong. FYI...he also stated that British...France...and German intel assessments were basically in line with US intel assessments...and now he now believes that all were wrong. He also stated before the committee today that it is his "belief" that the "consensus" of the US intel agencies is that they were wrong in their assessments...but that is only his belief. In other words there are some within the intel agencies that may disagree with him when he uses the word "consensus".