Misleading WaPo "headlie": Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War

[DesEtoiles]

Kinda makes it look like there were biolab trailers that support Bush's claim of WMD. Even when the facts are agains them the WaPo must appease its corporate masters.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/11/AR2006041101888.html

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.

[11cents]

1. That's a stretch.

This Washington Post article is damaging to the WH, full stop. Credit where due is a more useful approach than carping over every marginal ambiguity in a headline.

[sandnsea]

2. Spinning Bush's numbers too

First we had that list of people in the San Francisco paper who would still vote for Bush. Then tonight on the LA Fox news, they showed people who believe Bush's approval ratings are 80 or 90. No particular purpose, just report his bad numbers and then show a select bunch of Bush lovers. It's just getting to be so blatant. Did they do this in anybody else's local news?

I watched Mr. Smith today, I had forgotten the part where the one Senator buries him in the media. So I guess this whole media thing isn't new either. *sigh*