Okay this goes back three Bush Wars

Remember the story about Iraqi's tossing babies out of incubators in Kuwait?

A story that turned out to be --- surprise!!! -- completely and totally bogus (though once again we didn't find out until several years later).

Well here's some indication of progress, right?

Many doctors in the area say that the local health situation has deteriorated markedly since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003. "The mortality of children in Basra has increased by nearly 30 percent compared to the Saddam Hussein era," Dr Haydar Salah, a paediatrician at the Basra Children's Hospital, pointed out. "Children are dying daily, and no one is doing anything to help them."

Of course, this is a parallel to the story that many of our better bloggers are already covering, that Bush lied out of his ass about mobile biological labs.

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."

The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a vindication of the decision to go to war. But even as Bush spoke, U.S. intelligence officials possessed powerful evidence that it was not true.

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.

It should also be noted that while Bush lied two days after he knew his claim to be false, Cheney according to the Post continued to lie for another four months.

I could be wrong about this, but my recollection is that Cheney continued to lie about these mobile labs well beyond the late Summer, early Fall 2003 -- just like he continued to lie about the Iraq-Al Qaeda meeting in Prague. If somebody can help a blogger out, I'd appreciate it (I'm too lazy to check my own archives).