Bush and WMD trailers: he did not lie
04.13.06 (12:31 pm) [edit]DrForBush has posted yet another ignorant blog- http://drforbush.tblog.com/po... based on a highly misleading Washington Post story about Bush's May 29, 2003 statement that the US had found trailers that were used as mobile weapons labs.
What DrForBush doesn't bother to do is actually read the article, because deep in the article is the fact that of the three teams that inspected the trailers on May 27, TWO of the three believed them to be bio-weapon labs.
Because of this majority view, the DIA and the CIA published a report on May 28, 2003 which you can read here-- http://www.cia.gov/cia/report... . In the report, which, we remind you was made after two of three teams on the ground confirmed the existence of bio-weapons labs, said:
"Coalition forces have uncovered the strongest evidence to date that Iraq was hiding a biological warfare program. … US forces in late April also discovered a mobile laboratory truck in Baghdad. The truck is a toxicology laboratory from the 1980s that could be used to support BW or legitimate research. The design, equipment, and layout of the trailer found in late April is strikingly similar to descriptions provided by a source who was a chemical engineer that managed one of the mobile plants."
"...[W]e nevertheless are confident that this trailer is a mobile BW production plant because of the source’s description, equipment, and design."
This report therefore is what led the president to say, accurately at the time:
"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."
So the DECEPTION HERE IS BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NOT THE PRESIDENT, AND THE CRIME EXISTS IN IDIOTS LIKE DRFORBUSH AND EVERYONE ON THE LEFT THAT PARROTS THIS TRIPE USING IT TO BASH SOMEONE.
Criticism is what makes this country great-- but criticism based on known lies for power is something intolerable.
Sidenote: DrForBush is also wrong on Joe Wilson. Should he have bothered to read the 9/11 report, or the investigation into the Wilson affair by the Foreign Intel Committee it is clear that Wilson, not Bush lied, for it was Wilson who told the CIA and the Senate that Iraq did try, indeed, to by uranium in Africa.
Blogs are fun. Unfortunately, they give idiots a lot of space to be themselves.
posted by: therealspartacus007 (reply)
post date: 04.13.06 (11:01 am)
From what I understood from MSNBC's report, the final of the 3 groups, (the one that actually inspected the labs with qualified scientists) gave their report to the CIA before Bush made his statements asserting that the inspections proved they were mobile labs.
The Post report did not say that Bush lied, because they had no way of knowing if Bush knew about the report, if the White House knew, if the CIA was supressing the report to avoid embarassment or had ignored the report, or what the situation was.
So Bush made statements that were clearly untrue at the time he said them, but no one knows if he knew they were untrue at the time.
posted by: reducto (reply)
post date: 04.13.06 (4:27 pm)
I'm not saying the reports were true-- that's why I said "at the time" he thought they were accurate. From the hindsight of three years they were untrue at the time he said them, but we're talking one day here, and the fact is that the report from the DIA and CIA, which is official, is what Bush was going on.
Minority reports, in case you remember, are taken into consideration, but are not official. That is why Bush said what he said about the 2002 NIE-- it was the official conclusion.
We can talk about what did or did not end up being true. Intelligence is not based on cold, hard facts. Intelligence is based on assumptions, snippets of knowledge, etc. Everyone should know this. Trouble is, the critics don't care.
posted by: surrogate (reply)
post date: 04.19.06 (2:34 pm)
All I know is that about a month ago, you reported, again, that there WERE weapons of mass destruction and the proof was just about to be revealed. I'm waiting. (Like a couple of mobile bio-labs, if they were, were this huge threat to the U.S...., man you just HAVE to find justification for your folly, don't you?)
posted by: ottomanprang (reply)
post date: 05.07.06 (1:39 pm)
Ah. I see you've earned the wrath of Sewergate as well. You must be diong something right. As to your post yes there was a consensus regarding the biolabs, but that doesn't matter it's all about getting Bush.