So just how stupid do the Republicans think we are? Pretty stupid

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

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.

The three-page field report and a 122-page final report three weeks later were stamped "secret" and shelved. Meanwhile, for nearly a year, administration and intelligence officials continued to publicly assert that the trailers were weapons factories.

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1. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

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2. "Sneer." - xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R)

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5. "Heh, heh, heh." - Condi CorporateCarpetbagger Rice (R)

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3. Scott Ritter publicly debunked the trailers in "Uncovered"

in November 2003 - and now WaPO considers it news?

I suppose they're letting this crap trickle out to mitigate the possibility of tribunals.

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4. This article is from 2006