Paper: Bush touted WMD find despite conflicting evidence
--yep folks there is your headline on CCN International April 12, 2006 it was listed under "news"--
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/04/12/iraq.weapons.ap/WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration claimed trailers captured soon after the fall of Baghdad proved Iraq had weapons of mass destruction even though U.S. intelligence officials had strong evidence that was not the case, The Washington Post reported.
When the two small trailers were seized in late May 2003, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq. The administration said they were mobile "biological laboratories," and Bush declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."
The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was cited at the time as supporting evidence for the decision to go to war.
But a secret mission to Iraq had concluded the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons. Leaders of the Pentagon-sponsored mission sent their findings to Washington in a report on May 27, 2003, two days before the president's statement, the Post reported.