No WMD? Make Some Up!

The Washington Post today reported that those really scary mobile Biolabs that the Bush administration so proudly carted out to the media as evidence of weapons of mass destruction were nothing of the kind, and they knew it beforehand.

According to the article a Pentagon-sponsored mission concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons. They sent this information to the White House 2 days before the President made his announcement on May 29, 2003. Check out the press conference with Ari Fleischer on May 30. Helen Thomas asks the first question and it's a doozie: "We go to war for two trucks? "

Air stumbles and then talks all around the issue. Don't you love seeing the spin doctors when they get caught in a jam? Unfortunately, most of the remainder of the press just let this issue die, and only later reported that the alleged mobile weapons labs were nothing of the kind.

The president continued the deception in an interview with Polish Television on May 29, 2003 when he says:

"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."

And the lies just keep on coming!