Proof Bush Lies: The Mobile Weapons Lab Story
by Charles Coughlin
George Bush seems to think the American public is dumber than he is. Many of his lies are not even vaguely plausible. Anyone with average Internet skills could have found that the “mobile weapons labs” were nothing of the sort.
The Bush regime had the Pentagon hype the mobile weapons lab story for all it’s worth. One news article notes “the Pentagon team’s report… said the mobile facilities represented ‘the strongest evidence to date that Iraq was hiding a biological warfare program.’ ” How smart is it to make a claim that strong while other intelligence agencies are contradicting it?
Another article notes “The Washington Post reports that President Bush claimed weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq two days after a Pentagon-sponsored report made that claim a bunch of hot air…. The President assured us on 29 May 2003 that we had found mobile biological laboratories — ‘We have found the weapons of mass destruction.’ The only problem with that (despite the fact that it was false) was that we knew it was false when he said it. (Or should have known.)”
Another article reports “The White House faced new questions Wednesday about President Bush’s contention three years ago that weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq. The Washington Post reported that a Pentagon-sponsored team of experts determined in May 2003 that two small trailers were not used to make biological weapons. Yet two days after the team sent its findings to Washington in a classified report, Bush declared just the opposite. ‘We have found the weapons of mass destruction,’ Bush said in an interview with a Polish TV station. ‘We found biological laboratories.’ ”
I remember three years ago there were stories on the Internet exposing the “mobile weapons labs” as a sham at the same time Bush was giving his speech. A teenager with average Internet skills is better informed than this president. There are only two possibilities: Either Bush is a blundering idiot, who ignores good information from Intelligence agencies while embracing rumors, or he is a deliberate liar. Well, in Bush’s case, I suppose he could be both.