Sunday, July 18, 2004
Oops, David Kay corrects Bush: no causus belli
George Bush has frequently cited David Kay's findings as justifying the cause of invading Iraq,
"And David Kay continues to ferret out the truth ... one of the things that he first found was that there is clear violation of the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441. Material breach, they call it in the diplomatic circles. Casus belli, it means a -- that would have been a cause for a war."
David Kay disagrees with the implications of his work,
[Kay] told Britain's ITV network that Bush and Blair ''should have been able to tell before the war that the evidence did not exist for drawing the conclusion that Iraq presented a clear, present and imminent threat on the basis of existing weapons of mass destruction.''
''That was not something that required a war,'' he said.
// posted by Erik @ 7/18/2004 10:37:00 PM
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