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Everyone wrong on WMD, says Kay

REUTERS, Washington
Former chief US weapons hunter David Kay said on Wednesday "we were almost all wrong" about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that his search there found no evidence of biological or chemical arms.
"Let me start by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here," Kay told the Senate Armed Services Committee in his first public appearance on Capitol Hill since stepping down last week.
"I believe that the effort that has been directed to this point has been sufficiently intense that it is highly unlikely that there were large stockpiles of deployed militarised chemical and biological weapons there," he said.
Republican senators emphasized that the hunt for banned weapons, the central basis for the US-led war against Iraq, had not ended and something could still turn up.
Democrats read quote after quote from top administration officials saying Iraq had had such weapons.
Democrats trying to unseat Republican President Bush in elections this year are trying to make a case that the White House exaggerated intelligence to go to war.
"I think the administration owes the entire country a full explanation on this war -- not just their exaggerations but on the failure of American intelligence. They are responsible for it. It failed," Sen. John Kerry, who is running for president, said on a campaign trip.
Kay said the search should continue in Iraq, but predicted that at the end there would still be "an unresolvable ambiguity about what happened."
He said European countries, including those that opposed the war like France and Germany, had also believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. "It turns out that we were all wrong, proba-
bly in my judgment, and that is most disturbing."
Kay said inklings that prewar intelligence estimates were wrong surfaced last summer and by October a picture had emerged that Iraq did not have stockpiles. He
advocated a review of why expectations had been off the mark.
One theory about why Saddam did not try to prove he had no WMD was that he did not want to appear in the rest of the Arab world as having caved in to the United States and the United Nations, Kay said.
Another theory was that Saddam had wanted to use fear of the weapons to intimidate opponents in the Kurd and Shi'ite communities, he said.
After 1998, it was "a common phenomena" for Saddam to be deceived by his own people as to the progress of banned weapons development, Kay said.