Administration Propaganda

The Washington Post today published a time line exposing the Administration’s callous disregard for the truth. If they weren’t lying to the American Public then this is as a clear an example of incompetence as can be found.

February 5, 2003 Secretary of State Colin Powell addresses the UN during the lead up to the Iraq invasion and shows diagrams of alleged mobile bioweapon labs.

April 2003 Trailers found near Mosul

May 25, 2003 Pentagon team begins analysis of trailers.

May 27, 2003 Team files a report stating labs were not used for bioweapons and were not designed for such activity. Three weeks later report is classified.

May 28, 2003 CIA and DIA publish a report saying the opposite.

May 29, 2003 President Bush refers to the trailers by saying in a TV interview, “We have found the Weapons of Mass Destruction.”

June 27, 2003 Colin Powell says the intelligence community is increasingly confident that the trailers were used to make bioweapons.

Summer 2003 News reports begin casting suspicion on bioweapons in trailers.

September 14, 2003 Cheney on Meet the Press calls the trailers mobile biological facilities that could produce anthrax or smallpox.

October 2, 2003 David Kay, the head of the Iraqi Survey Group, says they cannot verify that trailers were used for bioweapons.

February 5, 2004 George Tenet says that the mobile lab theory is possible although there is no consensus.

September 30, 2004 Charles Duelfer, who replaced Kay, says the trailers were almost certainly intended to produce hydrogen, not biological weapons.