Bush Admin. Touted Iraqi Mobile Biolabs As WMD Evidence Months After Being Discredited...

Washington Post Joby Warrick April 12, 2006 at 12:39 AM
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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. and Kurdish 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.

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Colin Powell "Never Believed" Iraq/Niger Uranium Connection, Playing Up Nuclear Threat "Was All Cheney"...

Truthdig Robert Scheer April 11, 2006 at 11:16 PM
READ MORE: George W. Bush, Patrick Fitzgerald, Iraq, Halliburton, Dick Cheney

THE PRESIDENT played the scoundrel -- even the best of his minions went along with the lies -- and when a former ambassador dared to tell the truth, the White House initiated what Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald calls "a plan to discredit, punish or seek revenge against Mr. Wilson." That is the important story line.

If not for the whistle-blower, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, President Bush's falsehoods about the Iraq nuclear threat likely would never have been exposed.

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