Did the President read the same "Kay Report" as the rest of the world did?

OK, he probably got excerpts that include material too confidential for we mere mortals. Nevertheless, I was struck by something odd - odder than the fact that we've dropped $150 billion, with at least $87 billion more to go [plus hundreds of "coalition" casualities and thousands of Iraqi casualties]. What was odd was the fact that the Kay Pros found zero - zip - nada WMDs, yet the Prez still declared victory.

The Kay Team's big find was "a vial of live C. botulinum Okra B. from which a biological agent can be produced". What we're talking about is Botox (I'm not making that up). For all we know, it might be that Mrs. Hussien never got an invite to one of those 90210 Botox parties - so Iraqi scientists brewed up a batch of Wrinkles Be Gone for her.

Beyond that, they found a bunch of Old News.

We already knew that Saddam had chemical weapons. We even knew who gave 'em to him (hint: rhymes with "Dummie", runs the Defense and State Departments). We also know that over a period of 7 years that UN inspectors oversaw the destruction of said chemicals.

We already knew that Saddam had forbidden missles. The UN inspectors found ~100, and oversaw the destruction of most of those just prior to when the US invaded. Perhaps the Kay Boys found the rest. Big Deal!

The list goes on, and frankly, I'm underwhelmed. If Kay gets his way, he'll have another $600 million (for a total of just under a billion bucks) to try to justify the war - just in time for the 2004 elections. I'm betting that at least some portion of that budget is for "evidence" to plant. Hmmmm...... no wonder the US doesn't want the UN doing the inspecting - even though the UN inspectors would be thorough, impartial, and, um, free.

It's time to Eject Bush in 2004.