Pretense of US led Iraqi war comes into serious question...
Former US chief weapons hunter David Kay called Wednesday for an outside inquiry into the US intelligence failure over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction but insisted political pressure was not to blame.
"We were all wrong," Kay told the US Senate Armed Services Committee as he was subjected to intense questioning about his explosive disclosure on the weekend that a six-month search had found no evidence that Iraq had banned weapons before the US invasion in March.
He made the disclosure last weekend, days after quitting his post at the head of the Iraq Survey Group, charged with searching for WDMs in Iraq after President George W. Bush declared an end to hostilities last Spring.
Kay disputed suggestions that US intelligence was warped by political pressure from the administration of President George W. Bush.
"It turns out we were all wrong, probably, in my judgement. And that is most disturbing."
