Lies and Credibility

A comment from "Holden Caulfield" at Atrios linked to this interesting story in today's Washington Post. To further the point, here's a succinct, easy-to-read table listing the claims by the Bush Administration which are contradicted by the facts as they now stand almost ten months after the invasion.

A summary of the table:

Regarding Biological Weapons in Iraq: No weaponized agents found.

Regarding Chemical Weapons in Iraq: No weapons found. Appears none were produced after 1991.

Regarding Nuclear Weapons in Iraq: No evidence of any active program.

"The President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it." Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, December 5, 2002.

"If we do not find it, President Bush will be in serious trouble." Dick Morris, February 18, 2002 (see post below).