Jon Kyl: “I think it is time people start quoting David Kay properly to see just exactly what he said. I have a few excerpts from…”

“I think it is time people start quoting David Kay properly to see just exactly what he said. I have a few excerpts from his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 28 of this year. Senator McCain asked him this question: [Y]ou agree with the fundamental principle here that what we did was justified and enhances the security of the world by removing Saddam Hussein from power? David Kay: Absolutely. Senator Kennedy asked this interesting question: Many of us feel that the evidence so far leads to only one conclusion: that what has happened was more than a failure of intelligence, it was the result of manipulation of the intelligence to justify a decision to go to war. . . . David Kay responding: All I can say is if you read the total body of intelligence in the last 12 to 15 years that flowed on Iraq, I quite frankly think it would be hard to come to a conclusion other than Iraq was a gathering, serious threat to the world with regard to WMD.”