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Another Day, Another Administration Lie Exposed

by TChris

Another Bush administration effort to spread information it knew to be false has been exposed. This happens so frequently, it hardly seems like news.

On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush ... declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."

Bush was referring to two small trailers that were anointed as mobile "biological laboratories."

But even as Bush spoke, U.S. intelligence officials possessed powerful evidence that it was not true. A secret fact-finding mission to Iraq -- not made public until now -- had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons. Leaders of the Pentagon-sponsored mission transmitted their unanimous findings to Washington in a field report on May 27, 2003, two days before the president's statement.

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    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#1)
    by desertswine on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 08:23:45 AM EST
    The three-page field report and a 122-page final report three weeks later were stamped "secret" and shelved. Meanwhile, for nearly a year, administration and intelligence officials continued to publicly assert that the trailers were weapons factories.
    Reprehensible. There is no bottom to the Bush cesspool.

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#2)
    by Richard Aubrey on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 08:36:19 AM EST
    Actually, three separate teams were sent. The other two thought the trailers were likely biowar facilities. The minority opinion turned out, later, to have been correct. Not a lie. As you know.

    Actually, three separate teams were sent. No, there were 3 reports, 2 from military teams on the ground, the third team was sent to confirm the previous reports. This team was made up of scientist and weapons experts, they all said no way.

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#4)
    by peacrevol on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 08:54:42 AM EST
    It's almost as though the Bush admin wanted to believe there were wmd in iraq badly enough to send us over there before all the facts were collected. Though this story is slightly distorted by the press, the fact remains that the Bush admin didnt do enough homework and has now made himself and us look dumb. I was once a Bush supporter, but now as we will all continue to see in the next few years, he at best acted on poor information if not flat out lied about some things. That makes the intelligence community look bad, which embarrasses me. Our intelligence and recon are not as bad as our president has made it look in the past few years. Just keep that in mind.

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#5)
    by oldtree on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 08:55:08 AM EST
    There is at least one report that indicates that the trailers were toilets. Hard to imagine the end result a weapon of mass destruction, except to the whitehouse

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#6)
    by Punchy on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 09:02:12 AM EST
    Richard; The pattern is so obvious it's laughable. For ANYTHING they do, they send multiple "experts". One group is hard-wired to confirm the Admin's position. Always. That's their mission (see: CIA and the Al tubes). Then, when they're called on the carpet, they just point to that one set of "experts", and at the very least say "there's disagreement". "See, some thought otherwise", they say. "thought" being the actual lie, as there was no rational evaluation involved. By the way, this is exactly what IDers do. Point to one or two discredited "research articles", ignoring the 10,000+ papers in favor of evolution, and claim "controversy". Lord I hate these guys. This is 3rd grade playground "logic".

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#7)
    by Richard Aubrey on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 09:13:05 AM EST
    You know, guys, the WaPo, for all the transparent partisanship in the article, did really talk about the other two reports. So anybody who reads the whole thing will know the whole thing and will only believe the "lie" meme if they want to despite evidence. That includes you guys, but why do you think it includes anybody else? Or, I believe, you know better but hope the rest of us are fooled. Hard to follow you folks, sometimes.

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#8)
    by Sailor on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 09:13:10 AM EST
    Iraqi mobile labs nothing to do with germ warfare, report finds The Observer An official British investigation into two trailers found in northern Iraq has concluded they are not mobile germ warfare labs, as was claimed by Tony Blair and President George Bush, but were for the production of hydrogen to fill artillery balloons, as the Iraqis have continued to insist. [...] Instead, a British scientist and biological weapons expert, who has examined the trailers in Iraq, told The Observer last week: 'They are not mobile germ warfare laboratories. You could not use them for making biological weapons. They do not even look like them. They are exactly what the Iraqis said they were - facilities for the production of hydrogen gas to fill balloons.' [...] The revelation that the mobile labs were to produce hydrogen for artillery balloons will also cause discomfort for the British authorities because the Iraqi army's original system was sold to it by the British company, Marconi Command & Control.
    The british sold them the trailers. the british knew they weren't weapons labs. bushco continued to lie for months after the truth was known.
    Throughout the summer and fall of 2003, the trailers became simply "mobile biological laboratories" in speeches and press statements by administration officials. In late June, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell declared that the "confidence level is increasing" that the trailers were intended for biowarfare. In September, Vice President Cheney pronounced the trailers to be "mobile biological facilities," and said they could have been used to produce anthrax or smallpox.


    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#9)
    by scarshapedstar on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 10:09:33 AM EST
    Richard, how many times have we seen this pattern? Don't you think that defense ever wears thin? Fool me once...

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#10)
    by jondee on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 10:25:16 AM EST
    Listen to Richard long enough,(a day or so) and it becomes obvious that mein fuhrer cant lie. Thier mission embodies a larger truth that petty things like facts and logic can only impede.

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#11)
    by squeaky on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 10:47:27 AM EST
    oldtree:
    There is at least one report that indicates that the trailers were toilets.
    Richare Aubrey
    The other two thought the trailers were likely biowar facilities.
    Saddam was developing a biowar device that would spread hepatitis and cholera. Finally the evidence floats to the surface. A true collaboration between right and left to stop bush*t from sinking or is that stinking.

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#12)
    by Edger on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 11:11:46 AM EST
    Another Administration Lie Exposed Reliability and Consistency. Highly desirable qualities and hallmarks of a great man and president.

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#13)
    by jimakaPPJ on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 11:46:34 AM EST
    RA - According to the Left, all of the world's weathermen are liars 50% of the time.... ;-)

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#14)
    by jondee on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 11:59:37 AM EST
    Theres a few that are batting close to a thousand.

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#15)
    by Sailor on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 04:54:15 PM EST
    even if one were to say bush wasn't knowingly lying when he made that comment in late May 03, what was bushco's excuse to keep beating that drum for another year?

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#16)
    by Repack Rider on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 05:41:55 PM EST
    According to the Left, all of the world's weathermen are liars 50% of the time. Half as often as the president then?

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#17)
    by Johnny on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 05:51:01 PM EST
    Hows the fishing Jim? Bush lied. What more is there to say?

    He's fixin' to do it again.

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#19)
    by Sailor on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 07:25:24 PM EST
    ppj's record is 100% liar, but even he couldn't concoct an excuse for this one ... at least until rush tells him what to think tomorrow.

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#20)
    by jondee on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 07:40:38 PM EST
    Theyre not lies, theyre suppositions.

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#21)
    by Sailor on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 07:57:54 PM EST
    Suppositions/suppositories ... you say tomato;-)

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#22)
    by Che's Lounge on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 10:27:24 PM EST
    Can I get a Bin Laden quote here?

    Re: Another Day, Another Administration Lie Expose (none / 0) (#23)
    by Edger on Thu Apr 13, 2006 at 12:43:29 AM EST
    Suppositions/suppositories and Bin Laden quotes Innuendos... Italian suppositories. People who use 'em know where to put 'em.

    "We know where they(the WMD) are." Don't remember who said that before the war, PPJ?

    Dick cheney quotes on mtp or neocon nitwit entertainment tonight with horsebrithume. Repos everywhere could certainly stuff those.