STOCKPILE ' NEVER' EXISTED !

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Herald Sun: Stockpile 'never existed' [25jan04]

Stockpile 'never existed'
By PHILLIP COOREY
25jan04

THE CIA man hand-picked by the White House to lead the weapons search
in Iraq has quit, saying stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons
never existed.

Dr David Kay said one reason he quit was because members of his team,
the Iraqi Survey Group, were being forced to concentrate on
counterinsurgency work and the group's focus was being switched away
from looking for weapons. "When I started out, I had made it a
condition the ISG be exclusively focused on WMD. That's no longer so,"
Dr Kay said.

In a Reuters interview, Dr Kay blasted the US-appointed Iraqi
Governing Council for making the search "tough" and likened the
council to Saddam Hussein's regime.

"(It) would not allow its people to be interviewed unless they had
someone present. It was like the old regime."

When sovereignty was returned to the Iraqis in June as the US intends,
the weapons search would become "just almost impossible", he said.

Asked what happened to the alleged stockpiles of chemical and
biological weapons the US, Australia and Britain used as the key
reason for waging war, Dr Kay said:

"I don't think they existed."

"I think there were stockpiles at the end of the first Gulf War and .
. . UN inspectors and unilateral Iraqi action got rid of them."

"The best evidence is they did not resume large-scale production and
that's what we're really talking about." On Iraq's nuclear program,
"there were a few little things going on, but it had not resumed
anything meaningful."

Dr Kay said the limited findings so far by the ISG, which include no
actual weapons, were "85 per cent of what we're going to find".

Yesterday, the CIA announced Dr Kay's replacement would be former UN
weapons inspector Charles Duelfer who has already expressed WMD
scepticism.

Last October, he said Saddam retained an intention to develop WMD, but
that "does not mean Saddam did pose a WMD threat".

Dr Kay's conclusions are another blow to the White House, which has
moved in recent months to shift the reason for war away from WMD to
the benefits of a world without Saddam.

In his State of the Union address last week, President George W Bush
said Dr Kay's team had found "dozens of weapons of mass destruction
related program activities".

"Had we failed to act, the dictator's WMD programs would continue to
this day," President Bush said.
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. . . when first we practice to deceive!Updated: 06/14/03Simply
stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass
destruction. Dick Cheney
Speech to VFW National Convention
August 26, 2002

Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used
for the production of biological weapons. George W. Bush
Speech to UN General Assembly
September 12, 2002
If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is
once again misleading the world. Ari Fleischer
Press Briefing
December 2, 2002
We know for a fact that there are weapons there. Ari Fleischer
Press Briefing
January 9, 2003
Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the
materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX
nerve agent. George W. Bush
State of the Union Address
January 28, 2003
We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass
destruction, is determined to make more. Colin Powell
Remarks to UN Security Council
February 5, 2003
We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized
Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the
dictator tells us he does not have. George W. Bush
Radio Address
February 8, 2003
If Iraq had disarmed itself, gotten rid of its weapons of mass
destruction over the past 12 years, or over the last several months
since (UN Resolution) 1441 was enacted, we would not be facing the
crisis that we now have before us . . . But the suggestion that we are
doing this because we want to go to every country in the Middle East
and rearrange all of its pieces is not correct. Colin Powell
Interview with Radio France International
February 28, 2003
So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons
of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? . . . I think our
judgment has to be clearly not. Colin Powell
Remarks to UN Security Council
March 7, 2003
Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt
that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most
lethal weapons ever devised. George W. Bush
Address to the Nation
March 17, 2003
Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that
Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical
particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the
operation, for whatever duration it takes. Ari Fleisher
Press Briefing
March 21, 2003
There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons
of mass destruction. And . . . as this operation continues, those
weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have
produced them and who guard them. Gen. Tommy Franks
Press Conference
March 22, 2003
I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass
destruction.
Defense Policy Board member Kenneth Adelman
Washington Post, p. A27
March 23, 2003
One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a
number of sites. Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clark
Press Briefing
March 22, 2003
We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad
and east, west, south and north somewhat. Donald Rumsfeld
ABC Interview
March 30, 2003
Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of
mass destruction U.S. forces find -- and there will be plenty. Neocon
scholar Robert Kagan
Washington Post op-ed
April 9, 2003
But make no mistake -- as I said earlier -- we have high confidence
that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was
about and it is about. And we have high confidence it will be found.
Ari Fleischer
Press Briefing
April 10, 2003
We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi
scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he
destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them.
George W. Bush
NBC Interview
April 24, 2003
There are people who in large measure have information that we need .
. . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that
country. Donald Rumsfeld
Press Briefing
April 25, 2003
We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so. George W. Bush
Remarks to Reporters
May 3, 2003
I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there
and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it just now.
Colin Powell
Remarks to Reporters
May 4, 2003
We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass
destruction in that country. Donald Rumsfeld
Fox News Interview
May 4, 2003
I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam
Hussein -- because he had a weapons program. George W. Bush
Remarks to Reporters
May 6, 2003
U.S. officials never expected that "we were going to open garages and
find" weapons of mass destruction. Condoleeza Rice
Reuters Interview
May 12, 2003
I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago -- I mean,
there's no question that there were chemical weapons years ago --
whether they were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're
still hidden. Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, Commander 101st Airborne
Press Briefing
May 13, 2003
Before the war, there's no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had
weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical. I expected them
to be found. I still expect them to be found. Gen. Michael Hagee,
Commandant of the Marine Corps
Interview with Reporters
May 21, 2003
Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're
interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass
destruction. Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
NBC Today Show interview
May 26, 2003
They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.
Donald Rumsfeld
Remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations
May 27, 2003
For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass
destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the
one reason everyone could agree on. Paul Wolfowitz
Vanity Fair interview
May 28, 2003 It was a surprise to me then � it remains a surprise to
me now � that we have not uncovered weapons, as you say, in some of
the forward dispersal sites. Believe me, it's not for lack of trying.
We've been to virtually every ammunition supply point between the
Kuwaiti border and Baghdad, but they're simply not there. Lt. Gen.
James Conway, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force
Press Interview
May 30, 2003 Do I think we're going to find something?� Yeah, I kind
of do, because I think there's a lot of information out there."
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