The Art of Camouflage
David Kay comes clean, almost.
By FredÂKaplan
Posted Monday, Jan. 26, 2004, at 2:41 PM PT
David Kay's remarks over the weekendâthat Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction before the war and that U.S. intelligence agencies missed the signs that would have told them as muchâheld few surprises for anyone who'd closely read his official report on the matter last October. (Click here for one such close reading.) Kay was the CIA's chief weapons inspector until he resigned last week.
The difference between his report of last fall and his statements of recent days is that he was still on the Bush administration's payroll when he wrote the former and a free agent when he made the latter. It's the difference between obfuscation and clarityâpolitical allegiance and public candor.The discrepancy is not so much a comment on David Kay or George W. Bush as a general caution on how to read official reports.
For example, in an interview conducted late Saturday and published in today's New York Times, Kay says, "I'm personally convinced that there were not large stockpiles of newly produced weapons of mass destruction. We don't find the people, the documents or the physical plants that you would expect to find if the production was going on."
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Rather interesting.... observing Secretary of State Colin Powell engaged in what can only be described an unprecedented display of some sort of American drama before members of the International Community and the American Public, in which the secretary showed us the purported satellite pictures of Saddam Hussien's WMD mounted in on some trailer trucks, or is it contained in a warehouse(s), one is simply left speechless let alone buffaloed when our friend David Kay now questions the very premise ..the very notion peddled by the Administration in Washington that Saddam had WMD!!!
It is particularly sad that this "mother of all deceptions", if you like, has lead to the death of many American servicemen and Iraq civilians.
Matek
MK
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"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state."
- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
