White House angrily denies report on Iraqi WMD

[tocqueville]

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House vehemently denounced a US newspaper report suggesting President George W. Bush insisted on the existence of biological weapons laboratories in Iraq while knowing the claim was false.

The Washington Post said Wednesday that Bush and other top administration officials cited two trailers found in Iraq as evidence of a banned Iraqi weapons program even though Pentagon experts had found they were probably designed to produce hydrogen for weather balloons.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan condemned the newspaper report as "reckless", saying Bush had based his assertions on intelligence assesssments.

"And for you all to go on the air this morning and make such a charge is irresponsible," McClellan told reporters.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060412/pl_afp/usiraqbushweapons

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Quack, quack, quack.

You got your "reckless" and "irresponsible" but I missed the word "untrue."

I must have read it too quickly. :shrug:

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. One more out-and-out lie exposed. How many more?

[Botany]

3. Please ....

"And for you all to go on the air this morning and make such a charge is irresponsible," McClellan told reporters.

Ah, Scott a few things. The pentagon report that the trailers were not WMD production vehicles came out
2 days before the President spoke quoted it as saying "that we have found WMDs." After the report came out
the administration hid the report as a classified document for 3 years and both the President and the Vice President
stated that what it said supported their positions. This was done for over a year.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. "What did the President know and when did he know it?" echoes

"What did the President know and when did he know it?" echoes from Nixon?

[driver8]

5. Snotty McClellan is absolutely right on this one...

How dare the media print the truth!!

What...they think that they're journalists now?

(This is just a bad dream...This is just a bad dream...This is just a bad dream...)

[TahitiNut]

6. Only lies are 'responsible' in Bushoilini Amerika.

Lying and lying for months and months and years is 'patriotic' and 'responsible' ... and those who spread them nasty liberal truths are 'against us'.

FWIW, those trailers were identified as weather balloon equipment within 48-72 hours of Powell's display of the photos at the UN, iirc. Ludicrous.

[Loge23]

7. It's irresponsible and incomprehensible

for a slug like McClellen to claim to represent the American people.
He's a slug.

[driver8]

8. You are being too kind.

Slug is a nice word for what that piece of shit is.

[EST]

9. I suppose, for a sycophantic, ass kissing warm stream media

type, it would be irresponsible to say anything not approved and included in the talking points fax of the day.

[400Years]

10. .

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[theHandpuppet]

11. So the WH is pissed?

Tough shit! So are we -- and we actually have cause.