"So far," he said, "we have found the biological weapons vans that I spoke about when I presented the case to the United Nations on the 5th of February, and there is no doubt in our minds," he said, "that those vans were designed for only one purpose, and that was to make biological weapons."
Remember that, there was no doubt in Colin's mind when it came to the trailers.
And who can forget Bush's remarks to Polish television on May 30, 2003, when he said:
"You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons," he said. Bush said in an interview before leaving today on a seven-day trip to Europe and the Middle East.
"They're illegal," he advised.
"They're against the United Nations resolutions," he continued, "and we've so far discovered two."
"And we'll find more weapons as time goes on," he said on live TV.
"But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons," he claimed, "they're wrong.
"We found them," he announced.
Throughout the summer of 2003, the Bush administration held up the trailers as trophies and called them "mobile biological laboratories." In late June 2003, Colin declared that the "confidence level is increasing" that the trailers were intended for biowarfare.
However, in the end, the "truth" emerged when the Iraqi Survey Group, which conducted the fruitless search for WMDs, issued a report in September 2004, that said the trailers were "impractical for biological agent production," lacking 11 components that would be crucial for making bioweapons. Instead, the report said, the trailers were "almost certainly designed and built for the generation of hydrogen."
But here come to find out, the administration knew the trailer tale was a big lie, and Bush knew it while he was running his mouth in Poland.
On April 12, 2006, the Washington Post reported that 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," the Post said, "transmitted their unanimous findings to Washington in a field report on May 27, 2003, two days before the president's statement."
But getting back to Colin's speech at the UN, when trying to sell the war, Colin went so far as to tell the world exactly what Saddam was up to with the "weapons vans."
"Ladies and gentlemen," he told the audience, "these are sophisticated facilities."
Remember that, there was no doubt in Colin's mind when it came to the trailers.
And who can forget Bush's remarks to Polish television on May 30, 2003, when he said:
"You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons," he said. Bush said in an interview before leaving today on a seven-day trip to Europe and the Middle East.
"They're against the United Nations resolutions," he continued, "and we've so far discovered two."
"And we'll find more weapons as time goes on," he said on live TV.
"But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons," he claimed, "they're wrong.
"We found them," he announced.
Throughout the summer of 2003, the Bush administration held up the trailers as trophies and called them "mobile biological laboratories." In late June 2003, Colin declared that the "confidence level is increasing" that the trailers were intended for biowarfare.
However, in the end, the "truth" emerged when the Iraqi Survey Group, which conducted the fruitless search for WMDs, issued a report in September 2004, that said the trailers were "impractical for biological agent production," lacking 11 components that would be crucial for making bioweapons. Instead, the report said, the trailers were "almost certainly designed and built for the generation of hydrogen."
But here come to find out, the administration knew the trailer tale was a big lie, and Bush knew it while he was running his mouth in Poland.
On April 12, 2006, the Washington Post reported that 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," the Post said, "transmitted their unanimous findings to Washington in a field report on May 27, 2003, two days before the president's statement."
But getting back to Colin's speech at the UN, when trying to sell the war, Colin went so far as to tell the world exactly what Saddam was up to with the "weapons vans."
"Ladies and gentlemen," he told the audience, "these are sophisticated facilities."
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