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Bush, Blair Should Have Known Prewar Iraq Intelligence Did Not Show WMD Threat, Kay Says
U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair should have known before Operation Iraqi Freedom that prewar intelligence on Iraq’s alleged WMD efforts was not strong enough to justify war, former chief U.S. weapons inspector David Kay said yesterday (see GSN, July 16). In an interview with the British ITV network, Kay said the two leaders “should have been able to tell before the war that the evidence did not exist for drawing the conclusion that Iraq presented a clear, present and imminent threat on the basis of existing weapons of mass destruction.” Kay said that recent U.S. and British reports on prewar intelligence are “a scathing indictment” of the two countries’ information-gathering efforts leading to the invasion. He also alleged that U.S. and British intelligence analysts were pressured to reach certain conclusions regarding prewar Iraq’s alleged WMD efforts. “Anything that showed Iraq didn’t have weapons of mass destruction had a much higher gate to pass, because if it were true, all of U.S. policy towards Iraq would have fallen asunder,” he said (Beth Gardiner, Associated Press/Boston Globe, July 19).
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