Another View on Kay Report
So one might think unless one bothered to read Kay's actual report -- rather than news stories about the report by reporters and headline writers whose preference for bad news -- if not a Democratic president -- is no longer in question.
What Kay really says in his report is that he and his inspectors have found "dozens of WMD-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations during the inspections that began in late 2002."
And that's just the beginning of a laundry list of findings that should chill a vampire, including a clandestine network of laboratories suitable for chemical and biological warfare research and a prison lab complex possibly used in human testing of biological agents.
But, as most news outlets noted as dramatically as possible, he found no stocks of weapons. Bada-bingo.
What Kay also said -- and in fact what constitutes the first two long paragraphs of his report -- is that we are nowhere close to being finished. His report "is a snapshot," he said, and "much remains to be done."
And then Kay said in perfectly good English: "It is far too early to reach any definitive conclusions."
Yet, conclusions have been reached. Again and again, stories regurgitate claims that Bush exaggerated the case for war against Iraq by insisting that Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat.
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