WMD:MIA? III

Perhaps the time is nigh to declare that "we were wrong." According to this short piece occasioned by the resignation of David Kay as head of the ISG:

'"I don't think they existed," Kay told Reuters in a telephone interview. "What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last (1991) Gulf War and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s," he said.'

I look forward to hearing more of what Kay has to say; especially as to how the cleansing of WMD-related documentation and violence towards informants factor into the mix. And, an aspect of the debate is whether weapons produced before the Gulf War had been hidden away, too.

I can only assume that Kay is satisfied as to a resolving of the "appearances" about which I spoke in my earlier, related posts - that is, harmonizing, and now being able to explain alternatively, the picture drawn from pre-war estimates.

Not heartening news, in any event.

Update: a BBC piece on the same.
Update: a few more quotations from Kay in this Haartez piece