President Bush makes comments about Iraq, Oct. 3, 2003 (AP)
Bush Defends Iraq Weapons Hunt Story aired: Friday, October 03, 2003
Top U.S. weapons inspector David Kay told reporters today what he is saying behind closed doors to Congressional committees. He said what most people expected:
"We have not yet found actual weapons. It does not mean that we have concluded there are no actual weapons. It means -- and it is a huge country, with a lot to do -- that we have not yet found weapons."
Kay also said he believes his team has now learned most of what there is to know about Iraq's weapons programs.
Republican and Democratic senators seized on Kay's testimony to question the U.S. use of intelligence in the lead up to war.
This morning, speaking on the East Lawn of the White House, President George W. Bush responded to the critics:
"Dr. Kay's team discovered what the report calls -- and I quote -- 'dozens of WMD-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations.'"
For analysis of the Iraq weapons report, Here and Now turns to Dana Priest of The Washington Post.
