Liar Liar

New day, more misinformation revealed. 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. 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.

The White House will clearly blame the CIA here for not making the political suits aware of their findings. However, this article has all the earmarks of Cheney's heavy, intelligence-twisting, hand pushing through a conclusion that suited the administration's needs despite the facts submitted to them. Read on, and tell me that the White House did NOT exert pressure on the official CIA assessment.

The technical team's findings had no apparent impact on the intelligence agencies' public statements on the trailers. A day after the team's report was transmitted to Washington -- May 28, 2003 -- the CIA publicly released its first formal assessment of the trailers, reflecting the views of its Washington analysts. That white paper, which also bore the DIA seal, contended that U.S. officials were "confident" that the trailers were used for "mobile biological weapons production."[Emphasis Added]

The Bush administration needed a public statement, they needed a bit of red meat to throw at their supporters, they needed the facts to fit their warped perspective. The bottom line is that intelligence was cherry-picked before and after the war to suit their lying ways.

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Question: Where were all these damning news reports and revelations BEFORE the 2004 election? I'm just asking.