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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