When many were sceptical, David Kay was once confident that some dodgy trailers found in Iraq were mobile biological facilities. He was likewise sure that some aluminium tubes were evidence of Saddam Hussein's pursuit of nuclear weapons. That such a hawkish analyst should now say-as Mr Kay has done since resigning last week as America's chief weapons-hunter in Iraq-that there is probably not much more to find, is more than a little awkward for George Bush. "We were all wrong", Mr Kay told senators, "and that is most disturbing." He has changed his mind about the trailers and the tubes.
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