When next you speak with Herr Baier, can you ask him a simple question, to
wit: "Do you ever get tired of being wrong?"
http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraqi_mobile_plants/paper_w.pdf
The report Herr Baier mentioned is wrong. The trailers were indeed
biological weapons laboratories.
Denys
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What we have discovered is Bush himself is the weapon of mass distruction.
We were all looking in the wrong place when it was in the white house all
along :-)
-------------- Original message from Michael Baier
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> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:35:40 -0500, Denys Beauchemin > M>
> wrote:
>
> >It's time for honesty. I didn't really read Wirt's post; it's just
> >too predictable. Whatever is bad, W is responsible for it.
>
> Denys,
>
> yes it is about time ;->
>
> US shelved evidence discounting Iraq's WMD: report Wed Apr 12, 1:41 AM ET
>
>
> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration publicly asserted that two
>
> trailers captured by U.S. troops in Iraq in May 2003 were
> mobile "biological laboratories" even after U.S. intelligence officials h
> ad
> evidence that it was not true, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
>
>
> On May 29, 2003, President George W. Bush hailed the capture of the
> trailers, declaring "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."
>
> But a Pentagon-sponsored fact-finding mission had already concluded that
>
> the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons, the Post reported
> ,
> citing government officials and weapons experts who participated in the
>
> secret mission or had direct knowledge of it.
>
> The Post said the group's unanimous findings had been sent to the Pentago
> n
> in a field report, two days before the president's statement.
>
> Bush cited the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction as the prime
>
> justification for invading Iraq. No such weapons ever were found.
>
> A U.S. intelligence official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymi
> ty
> confirmed the existence of the field report but said it was a preliminary
>
> finding that had to be evaluated.
>
> "You don't change a report that has been coordinated in the (intelligence
> )
> community based on a field report," the official said. "It's a preliminar
> y
> report. No matter how strongly the individual may feel about the subject
>
> matter."
>
> The three-page field report and a 122-page final report three weeks later
>
> were classified and shelved, The Washington Post reported. It added that
>
> for nearly a year after that, the Bush administration continued to public
>
> assert that the trailers were biological weapons factories.
>
> The authors of the reports -- nine U.S. and British civilian experts --
>
> were sent to Baghdad by the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, the
> newspaper said.
>
> A DIA spokesman told the paper that the team's findings were neither
> ignored nor suppressed, but were incorporated in the work of the Iraqi
>
> Survey Group, which led the official search for Iraqi weapons of mass
> destruction.
>
> The team's work remains classified. But the newspaper said interviews
> revealed that the team was unequivocal in its conclusion that the trailer
> s
> were not intended to manufacture biological weapons.
>
> "There was no connection to anything biological," one expert who studied
>
> the trailers was quoted as saying.
>
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