Bush Knowingly Lied To Troops - June 5, 2003

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/06/20030605-1.html

President Talks to Troops in Qatar

One thing else we've done is we made sure that Iraq is not going to serve as an arsenal for terrorist -- for terrorist groups. We recently found two mobile biological weapons facilities which were capable of producing biological agents. This is a man who spent decades hiding tools of mass murder. He knew the inspectors were looking for them. You know better than me he's got a big country in which to hide them. We're on the look. We'll reveal the truth.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,973012,00.html

Saddam's trucks were for balloons, not germs.

Blow to Blair over 'mobile labs' | International | The Observer

Sunday June 8, 2003

Tony Blair faces a fresh crisis over Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, as evidence emerges that two vehicles that he has repeatedly claimed to be Iraqi mobile biological warfare production units are nothing of the sort.

The intelligence agency MI6, British defence officers and technical experts from the Porton Down microbiological research establishment have been ordered to conduct an urgent review of the mobile facilities, following US analysis which casts serious doubt on whether they really are germ labs.

'I have no great confidence that it's a fermenter,' a senior analyst said of a tank supposed to be capable of multiplying seed germs into lethal swarms. The government's public report, he said, 'was a rushed job and looks political'. The analyst had not seen the trailers, but reviewed evidence from them.

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1. He lied to the Congress too - in the SOTU. Impeachable- prima facie.

Tell that to Reid who wants to enable him again - "temporarily" of course.

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2. It would be worthwhile putting together a list of the lies told.