David Kay Quotes
The Bush administration should come clean with the American people and admit that they were wrong.
David Kay, Chief Weapons Inspector, CIA, Referring to the President’s statements that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction whose use was “imminent.”, The Guardian (London), March 3, 2004
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At the time Walker made this statement George W. Bush was in the 6th year of his troubled presidency. He was not a strong leader and was generally believed by all but his most loyal supporters to have not told the truth to the American people and many people thought that he and his administration had deliberately lied about many things – especially the Iraq war causes belli. Bush claimed that he had been misled by bad intelligence and that his failure to tell the truth was inadvertent.
The President’s State of the Union Message had contained invalid claims that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Africa. The press was attempting to determine who put the information into the draft of the President’s speech.
David A. Kay (born c. 1940) is a weapons expert, political commentator, and senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. He is best known for his time as United Nations Chief Weapons Inspector following the first Gulf War and for leading of the Iraq Survey Group's search for weapons of mass destruction following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Upon presentation of the Group's finding that there had been significant errors in pre-war intelligence concerning Iraq's weapons programs, Kay resigned. The ensuing controversy served as impetus for the formation of the Iraq Intelligence Commission.
