Confessions of a Total World Dominator

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You've locked Christian in your closet.

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Truth

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Dancer

What the customers think:

You're kinky

Favorite Quote:

"You're going to be bad for business. I can tell."

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Kay Says Iraq Likely Had No Banned Arms

By KATHERINE PFLEGER, Associated Press Writer (with a little modification by yours truly...)

WASHINGTON - The former top U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq said Sunday she believes Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Kay said the challenge for the United States now is to figure out why intelligence indicated that the Iraqi president did have them.

"We led this search to find the truth, not to find the weapons. The fact that we found the weapons do not exist, we've got to deal with that difference and understand why," Kay said Sunday on the National Public Radio program "Weekend Edition."

"It's not a political issue. Its an issue of the capabilities of one's intelligence service to collect valid, truthful information."

Since Kay's resignation Friday as the top U.S. weapons investigator in Iraq, Kay has said Iraq had no large-scale weapons production program during the 1990s, after it lost the 1991 Persian Gulf War (news - web sites), and no large numbers of mass destruction weapons were available for "imminent action."

Still, "that is not the same thing as saying it was not a serious, imminent threat," she said Sunday. "That is a political judgment," she said, "not a technical judgment."

Kay's declaration that weapons of mass destruction did not exist before the war puts her in direct contradiction with the official Bush administration position. On Saturday, President Bush 's spokesman said the administration stood by its assertions that Iraq had banned weapons when U.S. and British forces invaded last March. The spokesman, Scott McClellan, said it was only a matter of time before inspectors find them.

Secretary of State Colin Powell , in contrast, held out the possibility Saturday that prewar Iraq may not have possessed such weapons. "The answer to that question is, we don't know yet," Powell told reporters on a trip to Georgia. He said U.S. officials had believed Saddam had weapons prewar but had unanswered questions: "What was it?" he asked. "One hundred tons, 500 tons or zero tons? Was it so many liters of anthrax, 10 times that amount or nothing?"

Kay said she believes the American public and politicians now have to grapple with the question of whether the Iraqi dictator posed an imminent threat. Given the reality on the ground, as opposed to estimates, some may reach different conclusions than they did before the war, he said.

"I must say I actually think Iraq — what we learned during the inspections — made Iraq a more dangerous place potentially than in fact we thought it was even before the war," Kay added.

Kay came home from Iraq in December and never returned to Baghdad to continue inspections as head of the Iraq Survey Group, sent by the CIA to track down Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

CIA Director George Tenet replaced her Friday with Charles Duelfer, the No. 2 weapons inspector for the United Nations for about seven years.

Kay said she left the position because resources were being shifted from the search for Iraq's weapons stockpiles to counterterrorism and troop protection in Iraq.

Duelfer said Friday he has been assured he will have the appropriate resources.

Kay said she now is going to turn his attention to weapons proliferation issues and the recent lessons learned.

In addition to Iraq, he pointed out, the United States has been surprised this year by nuclear programs in Libya and Iran.

"The Iranian program was not found either by the international inspection agencies or by domestic intelligence services. It was Iranian defectors, Iranian opposition groups outside of Iran that brought it to the world's attention," Kay told NPR.

In Libya, he said, the surprise has been the connections to Pakistan and Malaysia, where he said it appears plants were producing parts.

"It is in many ways the biggest surprise of all, and it was missed," Kay said. "We need to understand our capabilities and what needs to be done to make the nation better."

Okay....so Kay? Where did you find time to do all this weapons inspecting stuff? How in the world did you fit a trip to Iraq in this past December, and why didn't you tell me you were doing all these things. As your fellow world denominator, I am really confused!

Sorry...just caught my eye, had to run with it, I'm stuck in the house today so I need something to do with my freetime, although my room needs the attention the most..but I'm getting to it! We got an ice storm this morning, and it appears that it hit us fairly hard, no power outages or anything, just a wondrous sheet of ice coating the world. For me it means a day inside and no church for me tonight....that sucks. It kind of makes me wish I would have chosen a place even closer, like the one across the street. This makes me laugh since I started going to the church in Weston because it was so much closer than the one I was going to in KC. Whatever....

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Occupation

Cabin Boy

Ship Name

The Rushing Rogue

# of ships you sacked

260

How you died

Got your throat slit

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