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The word is out: Iraqi mobile labs nothing to do with germ warfare, report finds (from the Observer).

An official British investigation into two trailers found in northern Iraq has concluded they are not mobile germ warfare labs, as was claimed by Tony Blair and President George Bush, but were for the production of hydrogen to fill artillery balloons, as the Iraqis have continued to insist.

Now go read our transcript from last week's Fox News Sunday, and pay attention to what Brit Hume was saying about the two trailers. (Either further down on this page, or at this URL). Incoherent excerpts:

BRIT HUME: Oh, please.
BRIT HUME: They're hot dog stands, Juan, that's what they were.
BRIT HUME: Making cider?
BRIT HUME: ... What we have found is an array of facilities on board those mobile labs that the analysts say could not possibly have been used for anything else.
BRIT HUME: So, they're making stuff like Viagra?
BRIT HUME: Juan, that's, that really - that's the tooth fairy stuff.

posted by Quiddity at 6/16/2003 10:46:00 AM