Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Even More Problems

The Huffington Post has a Washington Post story that shows that the Bush administration did lie us into war:

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."

...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....


Ohio Gov. Bob Taft could lose his law license, according to the Toledo Blade.

Doug Moorman has a new position. Moorman, a former aide to Gov. Bob Taft, paid a fine for an ethics violation. Now Moorman, according to the Charlotte Business Courier will become vice president of economic development on an interim basis, the chamber said Monday.

Taegan Goddard is reporting on another poll that has depressing numbers for Republicans: The approval rating for congressional Republicans is now just 38%.

Vice President Dick Cheney was booed at the Nationals opening day ceremony.