Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War
WP: Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War Administration Pushed Notion of Banned Iraqi Weapons Despite Evidence to Contrary
Wednesday, April 12, 2006;
On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."
The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a vindication of the decision to go to war. 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.
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.
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whow. this is important--another drip drip-on the heals of Leaker-in chief
"But for those who say we haven't found the banned weapons, they're wrong"
We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two. And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/g8/interview5.html
MFing LIAR.
The Pentagon is bypassing official US intelligence channels and turning to a dangerous
and unruly cast of characters to create strife in Iran in preparation for any possible attack.
One group hired by Cheney is a right-wing terrorist organization known as Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK),
which is being “run” in Iran. One anonymous official said this was Cheney's doing and was stronglt
opposed by Condoleezza Rice. “We are already at war,” a UN official told rawstory.com.
Poppy made a deal with Hezzbollah and the Ayatollah to get elected to the presidency in 1980.
He smuggled weapons to the terrorists via Adnon Khashoggi and the Carlyle Group felons.
Then Cheney and Poppy created Osama with CIA money - that worked out great for them.
They can't steal billions in peacetime, and the "evil Soviet Empire" is history,
so they created a boogeyman named Osama and all those people had to die.
Now they're at it again.
This gang of thugs wants to invade so bad they can f-ing taste it.
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