Bush touted WMD find despite doubts[When is the call to impeach?]

The Bush administration claimed trailers captured soon after the fall of Baghdad proved Iraq had weapons of mass destruction even though U.S. intelligence officials had strong evidence that was not the case, The Washington Post has reported.

The Iraqi Survey Group later concluded from the inteligence evidence the trailers were 'impractical' for biological weapons production and were probably intended for manufacturing hydrogen for weather balloons, the paper said.

When the two small trailers were seized in late May 2003, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq. The administration said they were mobile 'biological laboratories,' and Bush declared, 'We have found the weapons of mass destruction.'

The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was cited at the time as supporting evidence for the decision to go to war.