Liar

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.

Over the lunch hour, FoxNews was trying to minimize all this, saying that Bush didn't know of this report when he made his statement, or some such thing (that, of course, doesn't explain why BushCo continued to repeat this claim for months afterward). But every time I read an article like this, I ask myself the same question: Why didn't the Bush Administration merely plant evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq either before, during, or immediately after the U.S. invasion?

Sure, such an act would have been pretty sleazy, but "sleazy" is this administration's middle name. After all, this is an administration that was more than willing to lie to the American people in order to get us into Iraq in the first place, and then commit treason in order to attack the credibility of a critic who started pointing out all of the lies. What's one more deception in the grand scheme of things?

Planting the WMD would have saved BushCo a lot of grief in the long haul, and everyone knows that the Bush-loving Corporate Media would never have taken a serious look at the authenticity of the bogus evidence.

UPDATE: Here's Scotty McClelland's thinking on the latest revelation with regard to the so-called mobile biological labs:

You know, I saw some reporting talking about how this latest revelation — which is not something that is new; this is all old information that’s being rehashed — was an embarrassment for the White House. No, it’s an embarrassment for the media that is out there reporting this.

I brought up with some of you earlier today some of the reporting that was based of this Washington Post report. And I talked to one of network about it…they expressed their apologies to the White House.

I hope they will go and publicly apologize on the air about the statements that were made, because I think it is important given that they had made those statements in front of all their viewers. So we look forward to that happening as well.

I also hope that happens. The more public the apologies, the more people will be exposed to this story and will learn of yet another BushCo deception with regard to Iraq.