Let’s face it. “Unresolved ambiguity” is not a phrase that rolls easily off the tongues of Dick Cheney or George W. Bush.

So when chief Iraq weapons inspector David Kay told the news media this week that Saddam Hussein apparently had no weapons of mass destruction by the time the US invaded Iraq last spring, and that Americans were going to have to face the fact that “there will always be unresolved ambiguity” about why US intelligence got Iraq so wrong, observers braced themselves for blood – David Kay’s blood. After all, this is not a White House that takes kindly to ambiguity; nor has it ever welcomed one-time insiders’ assertion of facts that contrast with the White House version of reality -- something to which Messieurs Paul O’Neill, Joseph Wilson and John Dilulio can attest. “There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction,” Vice President Cheney had told the 103rd National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in August 2002. “There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.”

Well apparently, there was some doubt after all...

Posted by Laura at January 28, 2004 08:09 PM