Bush Bought the Lies to Push His War

What's the going rate for selling out the United States Constitution and throwing in with the fomenters of aggressive war?

$20,500.

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This salient point should be remembered as the Regime rolls out a brand-new "product" come September: its report on the search for Saddam's elusive WMD. The CIA hired former UN weapons inspector David Kay, one of the most gung-ho drumbeaters for the war, to find, well, something in Iraq: plans, pop-guns, vats of goo--anything that might be massaged into a one-day headline for the credulous mouthbreathers in the media ("White House: We Found WMD!"), before, like those fabled "trailers of mass destruction" Bush once cited so definitively, it all dissolves in a back-page mist of hedging, qualification, retraction and debunking.

It goes without saying that Kay is not exactly a disinterested party. Until last fall, when he went to work as an "independent" consultant touting the Bush war "product," Kay was vice president of Scientific Applications International Corporation, a secretive high-tech defense company that pockets billions of Pentagon dollars--and is hip-deep in the Iraq conquest. Any conclusion by Kay that discredits the Bush war would erode SAIC's bottom line--not to mention the credibility of a certain well-paid drumbeater named David Kay. So there will be no such conclusion.