So this is from The Washington Post:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday angrily denied a newspaper report that suggested President George W. Bush in 2003 declared the existence of biological weapons laboratories in Iraq while knowing it was not true.
On May 29, 2003, Bush hailed the capture of two trailers in Iraq as mobile biological laboratories and declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."
The report in The Washington Post said a Pentagon-sponsored fact-finding mission had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons.
Now here's the real shocker in this story:
White House spokesman Scott McClellan called the account "reckless reporting" and said Bush made his statement based on the intelligence assessment of the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), an arm of the Pentagon.
When an ABC reporter pressed McClellan on the subject at his morning briefing, McClellan upbraided the network for picking up on the report.
"This is reckless reporting and for you all to go on the air this morning and make such a charge is irresponsible, and I hope that ABC would apologize for it and make a correction on the air," he said.
I can't believe it. The Bush administration is demanding an apology from the press for revealing that the Bush administration has lied to the American people regarding these claims of Iraqi biological weapons factories. And now the Bush administration is demanding an apology from the press for catching them in the act of lying?
I can't believe the audacity of this Bush White House. I could provide a commentary regarding this latest White House hypocrisy, but I'm not sure if certain colorful terms can be expressed through this blogsite.
Note: I also found this breaking story off Shakespeare's Sister's blogsite.
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