Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War

[katty]

more:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/11/AR2006041101888_pf.html

Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War
Administration Pushed Notion of Banned Iraqi Weapons Despite Evidence to Contrary

By Joby Warrick


Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 12, 2006; A01


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.

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.

[LiberalEsto]

1. There are plenty of trailers without biolabs

in the Southern states of the US. Does that mean General Chimp is going to bomb them too?

:scared:

[katty]

2. yes, especially those pricey, wasted FEMA trailers

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. They needed a special team to figure this out?

Heck, I knew it was bogus as soon as I heard that jr was the one touting the "discovery".