Nifty opportunities to study the Bush spin machine at work

Molly Ivins Writes:

Among the things we didn't know before the war:

The State Department was convinced that the Niger uranium claim was bogus.

The source for the claims about biological weapons was a questionable character called "Curveball," who had a drinking problem and was distrusted by German intelligence, which had worked with him.

We were told with alarm that Saddam Hussein had drones that could deliver weapons, but the Air Force thought that was a joke.

The Department of Energy never believed that the famous aluminum tubes had anything to do with a nuclear program.

Colin Powell's warnings about mobile weapons labs were not based on solid information.

I always thought the single best reason to doubt that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was that the United Nations inspectors were over there looking and couldn't find any. This was while Donald Rumsfeld was claiming we knew where the WMD were being stored. So why didn't we tell the inspectors so they could go look there? It never made sense.

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