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White House Dismisses Iraq’s Destruction of Banned Missiles: We Join Rev. Dr. Herbert Daughtry & Democracy Now! Correspondent Jeremy Scahill in Baghdad

The Bush administration yesterday dismissed Iraq’s efforts to destroy six missiles as "the mother of all distractions." White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said, "Here’s the Catch-22 that Saddam Hussein has put himself in: he denied he had these weapons, and then he destroys things he says he never had. If he lies about never having them, how can you trust him when he says he has destroyed them? "


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