VIDEO: ABC on Bush lying about mobile bioweapons labs in Iraq

[tuvor]

(Found it via BuzzFlash)

VIDEO: ABC reports on Bush lying about finding biological weapons labs in Iraq.

(Wait for the commercial to end, then in the right-hand box click "World News Tonight." Then click on the top story, "Did the president declare existence of WMD in Iraq while it wasn't true.")

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1836146

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. How prescient John Dean must be with a book written back then

entitled "Worse Than Watergate".

[The Wizard]

20. Incompetent morans

Or what is more frightening, these morans are that incompetent.

[wryter2000]

27. Welcome to DU

:hi:

Let's hope you joined at the beginning of the end of the * administration.

[reprehensor]

2. Can someone please capture this stream?

Nice, deadly report.

[khair75092]

3. I saw in a casino this weekend

they were taking bets on what month Bush would resign

[NewJeffCT]

5. Welcome to DU

what casino was that? What month was leading?

[hwmnbn]

7. Welcome to DU, khair75092 .......

:hi:

I'd take some action on that.

Maybe we could get a pool going here at DU. The Duer who guesses the closest day and time could win a trip to DC for the ceremony. Just a thought. :)

[NewJeffCT]

4. Wow, the corporate media actually reports this!

That is something.

[marylanddem]

41. Maybe they realize that if nuclear war happens, they'll be as

dead as the rest of us - and they can't make any money if they're dead!

[reprehensor]

6. Screen caps.

[FloridaPat]

8. I don't see a problem. * can't tell the truth. Everything he says is a lie

Why hasn't the MSM noticed that little detail? They keep covering him like he really has something useful to say

[Skinner]

9. Here's a direct link to the clip

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1836723 (You still have to watch an ad first)

Worth watching, IMO.

[paparush]

10. Why does ABC hate Bush's Freedom to hate our Freedom?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. Only one word to say

[Canuckistanian]

18. ITMFA

Say it loud, say it proud.

[marylanddem]

44. Does that mean "impeach the Motherf**ker's ass? n/t

[Canuckistanian]

47. Impeach The MFer Already

It's a website and a movement!

http://www.itmfa.com/

[Coes]

55. definitly

either for incompetence, or either for lying.

( it's probably both )

[twaddler01]

12. Let the truth be told!

Keep this coming to the MSM!

[The Wizard]

13. Media industrial complex

What we have here is a veracity deficit.

[npincus]

14. oh, lying about getting your d*ck sucked is MUCH worse...

[azurnoir]

15. Gee can't help

but notice one od ABC's other headlines is "flight 93 tapes released to public" don't think the 2 could be related?

[0007]

16. Arrest this little man that has less veracity than Kim Jong IL

[DWilliamsamh]

17. Notice Cheney FOUR MONTHS later

At the end of the Clip... notice Cheney saying the same thing four MONTHS later. It is beyond belief that even if the President simply "hadn't heard" (more likely lied) that the trailers where sand toilettes, Cheney didn't know the truth and actively LIED.... AGAIN! They should BOTH be impeached.

These guys are the scum of the earth and should be lined up in front of a firing squad, after being duly convicted of treason, and shot. And don't let 'em have a last cigarette either!

[helderheid]

31. that had my jaw drop

[LilyLibber]

35. Mine too!

No one could possibly expect us to buy that Cheney 'didn't know' the trailers were innocuous four #$%^ing months later!

[AngryOldDem]

46. Cheney most certainly did -- that's why he said it

He personifies, in my opinion, the abject contempt that this administration has for this country. Anyone who had only slightly been paying attention could have told you almost immediately that everything they said prior to the war and most definitely after was nothing but lie upon lie. If they had been listening during the 2000 campaign, the war with Iraq would not have come as such a surprise. Bush made it clear that settling the score with Sadaam was Job #1 for his gang, long before he took the oath.

They knew that most Americans would fall for their buzzwords of WMD, terror, national security etc., hook line and sinker, especially when it was wrapped up in the neat little package of God and country. And some of us, sadly, did. Now, as everyone is beginning to wake up, it's far too late and now we're looking at the EXACT same scenario with Iran, only with much higher stakes.

Shameless and repugnant. Two "family-friendly" words I can think of at the moment. Sorry for the (probably) unintelligble rant, but I am so, so sick of this shit. I hate to see my country played like this.

[marylanddem]

33. Yep - Cheney a lying sack of shit. n/t

[newyawker99]

50. Hi DWilliamsamh!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[LilyLibber]

19. It's about time...

the MSM started singing the right tune.

I've seen poor old shifty-eyed Scotty look uncomfortable in his role as White House Lie-Fountain before, but MAN! He looks like he wants to cut and run in that clip! Anybody want to take bets on how much longer HE lasts? :hide:

[blondeatlast]

21. I'm beginning to think that Cheney/Rove, et al have something

damning on Scotty McC, John McCain, and various others.

Whatever it could be, it's got to be ugly beyond imagination or they would cut and run. Perhaps it involves Guckert and all of them in a room, clothing optional.

Why on earth does Scotty McC stay?

Welcome to DU, btw! :toast:

[LilyLibber]

34. Thank you...

for the welcome! :toast: However, I think I could've gone my whole life without that "clothing optional" visual involving those guys...EWWWW! :rofl:

[blondeatlast]

51. Sorry about that--I was in a rare mood this morning!

Perhaps a trip to the DU Lounge will help.

[blondeatlast]

22. With a courageous and hungry press, our democracy will survive.

Kudos to ABC for having the courage to say it.

As one who can remember a bit of Watergate, I remember when they tied CREEP to the break-in.

It was a bold move, but it had to be done.

Unfortunately, instances like this are all too rare.

Thanks, ABC; you've again demonstrated why you have the only TV news I can bear to watch besides Countdown (which I don't really consider hard news).

[Festivito]

23. But, is Bush* lying, or is Bush* administration wildly incompetent?

If, incompetent, did Bush* fire those incompetents for their failure?
Or, did it not matter since getting Saddam out of Iraq was more important.
More important than our soldiers, our economy, our future, ... and Iraqi lives.

That Saddam trial is awfully expensive.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

24. What is not being reported is that the Shrub used these "sand toilets"

to get Poland to join the coalition even after they were identified as not being bio labs.

[kahleefornia]

25. thanks - for not forgetting Poland!! nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

30. Your welcome! See an excerpt of a transcript of an interview on 5/30/03

I remember vividly when he was there talking about the biolabs and I had already read that they were debunked. This is on May 30, 2003. A week after they were revealed to be "sand toilets"

From an interview I heard him do in Poland..from the WH transcripts

Q But, still, those countries who didn't support the Iraqi Freedom operation use the same argument, weapons of mass destruction haven't been found. So what argument will you use now to justify this war?

THE PRESIDENT: We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two. And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/g8/interview5.html

[wryter2000]

26. That settles it

The moment Katie Couric shows her mug on CBS, I'm switching to ABC.

[KansDem]

36. What's the matter? Won't like the new CBS News opening line?

Good evening, this is CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. Some people say...

Speaking of Katie Couric, has she gotten back to us about her accusation that Abramoff gave money to Democrats as well as Republicans?

COURIC: Hey, wait a second. Democrats took — Democrats took money from Abramoff too, Mr. Dean.

DEAN: That is absolutely false. That did not happen. Not one dime of money from Jack Abramoff went to any Democrat at any time.

COURIC: Let me just tell you — According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Abramoff and his associates gave $3 million to Republicans and $1.5 million to Democrats, including Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid.

DEAN: Not one dime of Jack Abramoff money ever went to any Democrat. We can show you the FEC reports, we’d be very happy to do it. There’s a lot of stuff in the press that the Republican National Committee’s been spinning that this is a bipartisan scandal. It is a Republican-financed scandal. Not one dime of money from Jack Abramoff ever went to any Democrat, not one dime.

COURIC: Well, we’ll obviously have to look into that and clarify that for our viewers at a later date. Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Dean, Governor Dean, thanks so much for talking with us.

DEAN: Thanks very much.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/26/couric-caught-on-tape/

Well, Katie, when's that "latter date?"

[AngryOldDem]

48. Edward R. Murrow has to be up to 300 RPMs by now...

...good night and good luck, indeed.

[wryter2000]

56. I'm afraid for Walter Cronkite's health

At his age, watching CBS turing into the Crap Broadcasting System can't be good for him.

[anitar1]

52. Me too! I hate the idea of Katie Cutie Couric being

presentd as a journalist. I will not wartch one more minute of CBS when she comes on the scene. What a farce.MSM is bad enough already. They are straddling the fence now because it is becoming all too obvious to the sheeple that BushCo is corrupt to the core. edit for spelling

[forintegrity]

28. Truly amazing how these people can out and out lie

and keep a straight face!

[bigbrother05]

29. I was ashamed of Powell

that day he went before the UN and dare to show nothing more than cartoon drawings of
trucks. thanks for posting.

[giant_robot]

32. I'm glad this is getting attention

but I would have enjoyed

HERE IT COMES...

it a lot more if it didn't stop to buffer every 15

HERE IT COMES...

seconds.

[90-percent]

37. Powell

I don't have the stuff that he has to have done such a thing that he did in front of the UN.

How many of us could knowingly lie about something that WOULD START A WAR!

He of all people on this earth should know the horrors of War, and also know that it must be absolutely the path of last resort!

GO TO HELL, Colin!

-85% Jimmy

[marylanddem]

45. Powell is carving himself a special niche of shame

by coming out anti-war after helping start it. Guess he's trying to spruce up the damaged goods he became by
being the bu**boy for those shameless warmongers. Is he thinking he stands the chance of a snowball in hell of getting into politics?
Has he apologized to us, yet, or simply pointed fingers?

[Blue_In_AK]

38. I like the way Elizabeth Vargas calls him "MR." Bush repeatedly.

[marylanddem]

43. Yep. And when she starts calling him Asterisk*, we'll know

for sure she's got her head on straight.

[alfredo]

39. the Brits sold the equipment to the Iraqis so they knew what

those trucks were for.

also, by Jan 18 2003 the UN knew what the "bio labs" were for.


http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/Iraq/For-Ministry/iraq-mfa-inspex-011803.htm


A) Group I: Consisting of (7) inspectors, left Al-Qanat Hotel at 9:30 a.m. At 9:45 a.m., it arrived at the laboratory of examining the food stuff which belongs to the State Company of Food Trade. This visit was intended to verify the Iraqi declarations as regards the existence of a mobile laboratory. It is worth mentioning that these labs were the subject of US senior officials’ concern, as they accused Iraq of using these mobile labs for producing bio-weapons.

The group ascertained of the actual purpose of these labs which were to replace, in case of emergency and in case the permanent labs had undergone an aggression, the existed permanent ones for examining the food stuff that, to be distributed according to the ration card and before it reaches consumer citizens.

These labs were free of any bio-agents production capacity. The group also checked the mobile labs and took (10) samples and water specimen from these two labs, which one of them was imported and the other was locally made; the group photographed them, from inside and outside, and asked for the importation invoices, which were given to them.

The visit was ended at 12:20 p.m., and the group arrived at Al-Qanat Hotel at 12:35 p.m.

[mconvente]

40. Last Straw

That's it people. FINALLY, the MSM is reporting this and it's time for the normal population to rise up and demand impeachment. Make this a national campaign issue. You vote in republicans who support/are supported by shrub, you get liars. Let's continue the fight!

[colorado_ufo]

42. Watch this video again.

Watch the body language, especially from VP, as he is compelled to look away while lying. Remember how carefully Powell chose his words to try to conform to any tiny possibility that what he was saying was true, to assuage his conscience. How could these people be so determined to have what they wanted that they could willfully ignore that their actions would cause the death of thousands?

The only one who even had a possibility, albeit a slim one, of stating something he thought was factual was b*sh, as he only looked clueless.

[Dr Fate]

49. Are any Top Democrats talking about this on TV today?

If not, why?

[PurpleChez]

53. Great info

and your signature line is my favorite Far Side cartoon ever. Maybe the buzzards will get W.

[Disturbed]

54. Some of the Corpse Media are now reporting the truth.

They were complicit in pushing the Illegal Iraq Invasion because it boosted their revenue but now that 60% of Americans feel that this invasion was a mistake the Corpse Media are shifting with the winds of American public disdain for the Illegal Invasion and the Lying Bush Regime.

[Zambero]

57. Worlds biggest sand toilets?

Or quite possibly enough transportable kitty litter to last our 2 cats the rest of their collective 18 lives! Bush and Cheney cannot possibly underestimate the grave threat that this poses to our national security.