March 03, 2004

Scotsman.com: Bush Should 'Come Clean' on Wmd Intelligence - Kay

The former chief US weapons inspector today urged President George W Bush to admit that pre-war intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was “wrong.”

In his first British newspaper interview, David Kay said he believed the US had lost the credibility of its intelligence following the failure to find stockpiles of WMDs in Iraq.

He told The Guardian: “It’s about confronting and coming clean with the American people, not just slipping a phrase into the state of the union speech. [Bush] should say: ‘We were mistaken and I am determined to find out why’.”