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Admit mistake about Iraq`s WMD, Kay tells Bush

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

London, Mar. 3, IRNA -- Former head of the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group, 
David Kay, Wednesday called on US President George W Bush to "come 
clean with the American people" and admit it was wrong about the 
claim of Saddam Hussein`s weapons of mass destruction. 
"When you don`t say you got it wrong, it leads to the general 
belief that you manipulated the intelligence and so did it for some 
other purpose," Kay said. 
The reluctance by the Bush administration was delaying essential 
reforms of US intelligence and further undermining Washington`s 
credibility at home and abroad, he warned in an interview with the 
Guardian, the first since he resigned from his post in January. 
"I think we lost the credibility of our intelligence. The next 
time you have to go and shout there`s a fire in the theater people 
are going to doubt it," the weapons inspector said. 
Kay provoked uproar at the end of January when he told the US 
Senate that "we were almost all wrong" about Iraq`s weapons of mass 
destruction (WMD). 
He told the Guardian that Bush should not admit he was wrong. 
"It`s about confronting and coming clean with the American people. He 
should say we were mistaken and I am determined to find out why," he 
said. 
The former head of the Iraq Survey Group said that he had become 
convinced there were no WMD to be found several months ago, but that 
the CIA and the Blair government in the UK were nervous about the 
impact of his conclusions. 
"I think the greatest concern about the report was in London 
rather than in Washington. It was a different political issue in 
London than it was here," he said, referring to the storm around the 
death of his former UN colleague David Kelly. 
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