A Real Credibility Problem

We should all remember the Niger documents, and Bush's administration's constant insistence that the reports were valid. We all know about Bush's lies about how leakers would be fired or prosecuted, only to discover that he approved at least some of the leaks.

Now, more of Bush's lies have been exposed.

When the two small trailers were seized in late May 2003, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq. The administration said they were mobile "biological laboratories," and Bush declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."

The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was cited at the time as supporting evidence for the decision to go to war.

But a secret mission to Iraq had already concluded the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons. Leaders of the Pentagon-sponsored mission sent their findings to Washington in a report on May 27, 2003, two days before the president's statement, the Post reported on its Web site Tuesday night.

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This administration appears to be totally incapable of telling the truth.

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