Lies Of Mass Destruction

That's what I call lies that lead to war and tens of thousands of deaths and countless more destruction.

From the Washington Post-

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...

YOWZA!

Let's add this to the pile of smoking guns the mass media will ignore, okay?

This Huffington Post graphic summarizes the story for those who don't wanna read the whole thing-



Tom Tomorrow did an amazing cartoon on the whole trailer story back in 2003.

I am too tired to voice my frustration on all this... AmericaBlog, can you take this one?-

Our president lied to us in order to justify a war.

Is there a single Republican left in this country with the courage to finally say enough is enough? You people thought Bill Clinton debased the presidency? What is the presidency NOW? The man doesn't even obey the law. He's spying on American citizens illegally. He's run our military into the ground, our country into a massive deficit, and now wants to start yet another war, this time nuclear.

Is no Republican willing to stand up and challenge this incredibly incompetent, dangerous man?

Danke.

It's amazing... every day it's something new with this administration. Just when you're trying to focus on one scandal, another slimes out beneath it. Should I be mad about this? Or the other lies they've told us about Iraq? Or the impending war with Iran? Or the President's involvement in the campaign that led to the Plame outing? Or the immigration 'debate'? Or their attacks on the media? Or their failures in the Gulf Coast? Or their arrogant detachment from what is going on around them? Or their attacks on science, education, the environment, sexuality, etc etc. Most people can't decide what to be mad, so they just give up and stop paying attention.

Worst President Ever? Yea, baby, you ain't kidding.

And in the background, more people continue to be killed for all of this...

[PS- Colin Powell blames Cheney for playing up the nuclear angle. Yes, and you went along it, Colin.]

[PPS- Are they lying to us about Zarqawi too? Who even knows anymore.]