NEWS OF THE DAY News 4. Inspector claims Iraqi War Based on Flawed Intelligence.

News 4. Inspector claims Iraqi War Based on Flawed Intelligence.

[NEW WORDS]
  * depressing : a. 침울하게 하는, 울적한, 억압적인

  * assessment : n. 평가, 판단

  * illegal : a. 불법적인, 비합법적인

  * compelling : a. 강제적인, 어쩔 수 없는, 칭찬[존경, 주목]하지 않을 수 없는

  * testimony : n. 증언, 언명

  * stinging : a. 통렬한, 신랄한, 괴롭히는, 아픈

  * critique : n. 비평, 비판

  * premise : n. 전제, 서두

  * stockpile : n. 비축(량), 사제기  - vt. 대량으로 비축하다

  * deploy : v. (전략적으로) 배치하다, 전개하다   -n. 전개, 배치

  * militarize : v. 군용화하다, 군대화하다

  * cite : v. 인용/인증하다, 예증하다, 언급하다, 예를 들다

  * press : v. (의견 등을) 남에게 강요하다, 강조하다, 주장하다, 고집하다

  * accuse A of B : A를 B에 대해 비난하다

  * conclusive : a. 결정적인, 단호한

  * mobile : a. 이동할 수 있는, 기동성 있는

  * mislead : v. 오도하다, 잘못 인도하다, 속이다

  * Republican : n. 공화당원

  * comfort : n. 위안, 위로

  * bottom line : n. 최종 결과, 결말, 가장 중요한 사항, 핵심, (계산된) 손익/손실

  * distort : v. 찌푸리다, 비틀다, 뒤틀다, 왜곡하다

 Good evening everyone. We're going to begin tonight with a very tough and depressing assessment of U.S. Intelligence. Today in Washington, before two committees of the Senate, David Kay, the man who led the U.S. effort to find illegal weapons in Iraq, said, and he included himself, 'We were all wrong.' ABC's Linda Douglas in Washington listened to some of the most compelling testimony.

  America's former chief weapons inspector gave a stinging critique of the prewar intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. In the politically divided Senate, each side heard what it wanted to hear. Democrats say David Kay provided further proof that the war in Iraq was based on false premises. 

  'It's highly unlikely that there were large stockpiles of deployed, militarized chemical and biological weapons.'

  The senior Democrat on the committee cited a series of claims made by the White House before the war.

  'It possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons.'

  'When we decide to go to war, it is totally unacceptable to have intelligence that is this far off.'

  'That is what is..is so frightening to me, because we make such serious life-and-death decisions relying on this intelligence information.'

 But other Republicans pressed. 'Might chemical or biological weapons yet be found? Not a large stockpile, but,'

  'It's possible they could be there where we can never find them.'

  Levin accused Vice President Cheney of continuing to spread false information. Just last week, Cheney said there is conclusive proof that Iraq had mobile bio-weapons labs. Kay said today the labs were making weather balloons. 'Cheney was misled', said one Republican. Republicans find comfort in Kay's view of the bottom line.

  'I think the world is far safer with the disappearance and the removal of Saddam Hussein.'

  'There is no evidence', said Kay, 'that the White House pressured the CIA to distort the evidence.' But Democrats say they do want an independent to investigate and now, Peter, David Kay does agree.