David Kay, Speaking Out

Check this out. I felt from the beginning that Kay was put in the job as a studge, someone who could be counted on to tow the WH's line on WMD.

This call of his for a serious review says two things, at least to me: that a serious, comprehensive, non-partisan (meaning, non GOP control at this point) review is direly needed and that Mr. Kay may be a more honorable man than I gave him credit for being when he suddenly signed onto this mission. If this were Clinton, or Kennedy, or Gore, or FDR rather than George W. Bush, the call for a review would be NO less loud from Democrats and Republicans, Independents and Third Party'ers alike.

We were taken to war on one resounding message: they had WMD capable of harming our country even though many neighbor states said they did not worry about Saddam and WMD. VP Dick Cheney still keeps insisting there are WMD and "the case is still out" on a tie between Saddam and bin Laden when there is no substantial evidence to support either at this point.

It doesn't matter if Clinton thought there were WMD. After all, every GOPer with a microphone in or near DC has told us that Clinton couldn't tell the truth. But even without that raising that memory (and not a long memory either, I still hear it from them), Clinton did not take us to full war on WMD. I'm not even certain he was justified in the more limited action he took against Iraq around the time of his impeachment. In fact, I would count this as one of the real concerns of the Clinton presidency, rather than any silliness about an intern past the age of consent.

It is OUR responsibility to hold this administration - white, black, pink, polka dotted or striped - accountable for taking us to a full war based on what we now know. Blaming everything on poor intelligence does not cut it. We owe it to the world, we owe it to the people of Iraq, we owe it to us, and we owe it to every soldier (American and coalition) we've allowed be placed in the line of fire.