1200 Inspectors, 90 days, $300M spent, WMD found = 0

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

Top Arms Hunter David Kay Gives His Report: 1200 Inspectors, 90 Days, $300 Million – WMD Found: 0


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=449413


1,200 weapons inspectors spent 90 days in Iraq. The exercise cost $300m. And the number of weapons found? 0
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington and Paul Waugh
03 October 2003


Five months after the end of the war in Iraq, a CIA adviser has admitted that his 1,200-strong team of inspectors has discovered none of Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction.

"We have not yet found stocks of weapons," David Kay, the head of the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group, said in a first report to closed-door sessions of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees, 90 days after the arrival of his group in Iraq. Mr Kay insisted that lines of inquiry on which the group were working might yet yield concrete proof. He hoped to "draw a line" under his work in six to nine months. In the report he argued that the bulkiest material that inspectors were searching for could be hidden in spaces little larger than a two-car garage. "We are not yet at the point where we can say definitively either that such weapon stocks do not exist or that they existed before the war and our only task is to find where they have gone".

He said: "Much evidence is irretrievably lost." He also blamed the slow progress on the way Iraq had arranged its WMD activities, the widespread destruction of materials and documents before the war, and looting of suspect sites afterwards.

But the meagre results seem bound to reinforce contentions that the US and British governments, wilfully or by error, grossly exaggerated the scale and the imminence of any threat from Saddam.

Mr Kay could do no better than draw three broad conclusions from his endeavours.

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[ignatius]

1. And, they are asking for another $600,000,000 to do what the UN

was doing at no cost to us.

I would like to see where every damned penny went.

[Jacobin]

2. but but but but.

They only need $600 million to search for the next six months.

It's a bargain

[Braden]

3. $300MM

wouldn't that be more like $300BN?

this whole preposterous war was a witch hunt for WMD and a preemptive strike against terror. I am proud to say, that at no point did I ever support this war.

The entire cost should be presented to be honest. And how much does weapons inspection cost? Is anyone else disturbed by this alarming amount of money spent searching?

[zbdent]

4. Well, this all could have been avoided, if only

Saddam would have let the inspectors into Iraq before the war.

So says the Resident!

[Kamika]

5. didnt they find it

Some dishwasher in a garden or something

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. 19,000 inspectors actively searching and 12,000 reading the Iraq documents

and Kaye is asking for an additional $600 million to continue to NOT find anything......WTF???

[zbdent]

7. Give me one million, I'll find the

Staple Remover of Mass Destruction!!!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. An unprecedented raid on the American Treasury!

:grr:

[chaumont58]

9. In the '92 campaign, Clinton described a fool as someone........

who does the same thing over and over and expects different results. The US taxpayer is being asked to support a $600 million fool named Kay.

[Trajan]

10. Break it down ....

$300,000,000.00 / 1200 heads = $250,000.00 per head ....

$250,000.00 / 90 days = $2,777.78 per head PER DAY !!! .....

Hmmmmm ... How does one get one of these plum positions ? ....

Sucking GOP ass ? .... is THAT all it takes ? ..