THE US, THE UN AND IRAQ VI

except - there's always an exception ; he did turn out as a "uniter and not a divider" -------- he has united the moderates, centrist and Democrats

and the other has,

very honorable Viet Nam duty and questionable flip flop on Iraq............

Kay, who was formerly a UN weapons inspector, called for the president to go further. "It's about confronting and coming clean with the American people. He should say 'we were mistaken and I am determined to find out why'," he said.

....Kay said that continued evasion would create public cynicism about the administration's motives, which he believes reflected a genuine fear of WMD falling into the hands of terrorists. He also said that if the administration did not confront the Iraq intelligence fiasco head-on it would undermine its credibility with its allies in future crises "for a generation".

I can understand where you are coming from Brand X - humility is something totally missing from the Republicans. But, I will give you time, one day you will see the light and you will then be saved.......

UNMOVIC inspectors learned before the invasion that U.S. intelligence tips amounted to a comedy of errors. The tips were almost always flawed or outright wrong. In one case, the review states, U.N. inspectors tried to verify a U.S. tip that a WMD site was disguised as a chicken farm. After UNMOVIC agents descended on the site under cover of darkness, they learned a stinky truth: The site was a chicken farm, complete with the mess and stench of chickens. Again following a U.S. tip, U.N. inspectors raided a farmhouse, believing they would find a cache of WMDs because their detectors signaled traces of banned substances. The weapons they found were conventional munitions allowed by the U.N. As to the traces of banned substances, the inspectors' equipment was reacting to sulfur from pigeons and their droppings.