The only thing new here is the news that George W. Bush probably knew a couple of days before he talked about them in public that the Defense Intelligence Agency had found they were not mobile weapons labs.
OK, given everything we already know about the lies before the war, this is not particularly startling - although I do think it's long past time we stopped referring to the campaign of disinformation and false information that we were fed as anything but lies. No, the startling and funny part of the "mobile weapons lab" lie is the administration's defense of it, which is so batty it's an instant classic.
According to White House spokesman Scott McClellan, the DIA report debunking the "weapons labs" is "a complex intelligence white paper and it's ... one derived from highly classified information (and) takes a substantial amount of time to coordinate and to run through a declassification process."
If I understand what McClellan is saying, Bush leaked bad information from a classified intelligence report because there wasn't enough time for the contradictory DIA report to go through a declassification process. All of which would make more sense if we hadn't just gone through this Valerie Plame episode, in which the White House says if the president leaked it, then it's legal to leak it. No problem, the president can declassify at will, they said. I don't know about you, but none of it is becoming clearer for me. Does anyone understand yet why we had to bomb Iran?
When it's politically convenient to leak a portion of a document out of context, that's what he does. When it's politically convenient to ignore information he knows about and lie, that's what he does. In any case, he lies pretty much all the time.
Don't worry, Molly. It's starting to become clearer to more and more Americans. It's not much clearer to those of us who knew about Bush all along, but the details - aka 'proof' - are starting to trickle down to folks who loved being swindled, conned, and lied to by that asshole as long as they thought he was 'their' man who would undo the Godless liberal heathen place the country has become and protect them from the monsters he told them were under their beds. When they learn the extent of the Bush/Republican con, they're gonna be pissed, probably more for being shown up in public as fools than for swallowing the bullshit in the first place, but that's OK.
When they realize, as they may be starting to do, that the Culture of Corruption is stealing from them, and their kids are the ones being killed for the Imperial pipe dreams of War Criminals, maybe they'll out with the pitchforks and scythes and go put a few heads on fence posts in D.C. I'd turn on Fox News to watch that just to see how they'd spin it as a Repub positive.
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