Reply #30: Here are the key points regarding what Kelly was writing... [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

British weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly was writing an expose about his work with anthrax and his warnings that Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction at the time of his death in July 2003, according to a report published in a British newspaper.

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The new report says Kelly had spoken with an Oxford publisher several times about a book.

“He had several discussions with a publisher in Oxford and was seeking advice on how far he could go without breaking the law on secrets,” the UK Daily Express alleged.

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/06/uk-weapons-inspector-dead-expose/

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I still don't think that Kelly talking to the BBC about the "Dodgy Dossier" (the "sexed up" case for war), nor his planning to write a book on that subject was enough to get him murdered. In fact, I doubt that the British/US pre-war lies about WMDs were enough to push him "off the reservation." I have felt all along that he knew something more--and I thought it might be their plan to plant WMDs in Iraq to be "discovered" by the US troops who were hunting for them (accompanied by Kelly colleague Judith Miller, avid for that "big scoop"). An effort not just to lie to the world but to hoodwink the world with planted WMDs (remember how the Bushwhacks all kept saying that they would be found, even though they all knew it was a lie--what made them so confident?)--this would have crossed Kelly's ethical line as a true-blue UN weapons inspector. We need to remember that Kelly was an insider. He supported the war. He wanted Saddam to be ousted. It would have taken a lot for him to turn him into a whistleblower--not mere government fudgings of the facts or even lies.

But the anthrax angle is something else--a new element of the story that I didn't know about (that he was planning a book to expose anthrax production). Like the Bushwhacks planting WMDs in Iraq, their instigation of the anthrax letters would likely be "over the top" as to utterly discrediting them before the world. I say "likely" advisedly. There doesn't seem to be anything these fuckwads did that disgraces them in our political establishment's eyes and imperils them with prosecution. However, back then, things were a bit tenser, and the Bushwhacks were more P.R. conscious, perhaps unsure how far they could go. When Kelly was found dead--very likely murdered (and covered up by the British government)--it was four days after Valerie Plame had been outed. His office and computers were searched and four days later Robert Novak additionally outed the entire Brewster-Jennings WMD counter-proliferation network!

Kelly wrote to Judith Miller on the day he died, expressing his concern--in rather terse terms (after her gushy email)--about "the many dark actors playing games." (She failed to disclose this email and her close connection to him in the obit she wrote about him for the NYT a few days later.)

Nobody was sure, in summer 2003, whether or not this government was going to go down the full nazi road. They were at the height of their power. They had just slaughtered 100,000 innocent people to steal their oil. Still, they were concerned enough about dissent to take on the CIA and out an agent and a whole project (not to mention a WMD counter-proliferation project) to suppress dissent (and likely for other reasons as well--for instance, to eliminate the worldwide network that was keeping eyes on the movement of WMDs, possibly for weapons profiteering purposes, or to try again to plant the WMDs in Iraq--the first plan having been foiled?). But I don't think that Kelly's comments on the exaggerated pre-war WMD intel (the "Dodgy Dossier") was sufficient motive for killing him. Most of the world was aware that there were no WMDs in Iraq anyway. However, exposure of their complicity in the anthrax letters would certainly be sufficient motive to murder Kelly. While our corpo-fascist media hardly blinked at the genocide in Iraq--in fact cheered it on--killing Americans with anthrax--if someone like Kelly had exposed it--might have turned them a bit green.