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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (149404)	12/8/2008 4:07:18 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Honestly, i'm very impressed you answered. Thanks! We didn't have 2 consecutive quarters of gdp contraction in 2001 ( bea.gov ), so how can you say there was a recession? You claim that's the official definition. What gives? SD

To: jlallen who wrote (149404)	12/8/2008 4:27:04 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	1 Recommendation Respond to of 173976

Though there was some initial confusion, i don't think anyone seriously argues those trailers found in Iraq were mobile bio weapons labs anymore. In fact there's evidence it was butt covering spin more than anything else: washingtonpost.com Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War Administration Pushed Notion of Banned Iraqi Weapons Despite Evidence to Contrary By Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, April 12, 2006; A01 On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction." The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a vindication of the decision to go to war. But even as Bush spoke, U.S. intelligence officials possessed powerful evidence that it was not true. A secret fact-finding mission to Iraq -- not made public until now -- had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons. Leaders of the Pentagon-sponsored mission transmitted their unanimous findings to Washington in a field report on May 27, 2003, two days before the president's statement. ... SD