Originally posted by miko2d
As for the rest of us, David Kay acknowledges his 1400-man team of weapons inspectors came up empty in Iraq after having total access to all possible sites of weapons of mass destruction and all the Iraqi scientists.
miko
As I pointed out in another thread, if there's to be an intelligent discussion of Kay, it may be better to read what the man actually said rather than post on what some think he said or what is filtered through the various biases.
Let me turn now to chemical weapons (CW). In searching for retained stocks of chemical munitions, ISG has had to contend with the almost unbelievable scale of Iraq's conventional weapons armory, which dwarfs by orders of magnitude the physical size of any conceivable stock of chemical weapons.
For example, there are approximately 130 known Iraqi Ammunition Storage Points (ASP), many of which exceed 50 square miles in size and hold an estimated 600,000 tons of artillery shells, rockets, aviation bombs and other ordinance. Of these 130 ASPs, approximately 120 still remain unexamined.
As Iraqi practice was not to mark much of their chemical ordinance and to store it at the same ASPs that held conventional rounds, the size of the required search effort is enormous.
Text of David Kay's unclassified statement It doesn't take long to read, really. I found I needed and wanted to read it twice. The guy has a lot to say... if you're willing to read with an open mind.
So what do you think, Miko?
Perhaps he did have total access. But so far, they haven't examined even 10% of the Iraqi Ammunition Storage points. Some are 50 square miles and the conventional ord and chemical ord have no specific markings or special storage sites.
What do you think? Tough job, maybe?
