Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Bush's lies keep piling up and the cost has been too great

From Capitol Hill Blue:

President George W. Bush lied to the American public when he claimed two trailers captured by U.S. troops in Iraq in May 2003 were mobile "biological laboratories." At the time he made the claim, U.S. intelligence officials already knew it was not true and had told the President the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons.

On May 29, 2003, 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, citing government officials and weapons experts who participated in the secret mission or had direct knowledge of it.

The group's unanimous findings had been sent to the Pentagon in a field report, two days before the president's statement.

The revelation is the latest in a series that shows how the Bush Administration intentionally withheld or downplayed information that did support its now-discredited claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and posed an immediate threat to the United States.

Bush cited the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction as the prime justification for invading Iraq. No such weapons ever were found.


Read the rest at the title. How much more do we have to pay for your unjust war in human cost and financial burden? When will your lies start getting you in trouble and stop getting our soldiers killed? When will we RISE UP and end this rule by deception and demand justice?