White House caught in another lie

In Wednesday's "Iraq snapshot," you learned what the press wouldn't tell you: There was no dust storm in Baghdad on Tuesday. Barack Obama landed at Baghdad International Airport which is flanked by Camp Victory. Barack was driven from the Airport to the adjoining Camp Victory and Nouri al-Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq, and Jalal Talabani, the country's president, had to come to him. Barack would not leave the safety of the base.



On ABC World News Tonight, Jake Tapper parroted the White House lie: "More extensive travel plans were scrapped because a dust storm made helicopter travel impossible." On NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams, Williams also lied, "Air Force One landed in the beginnings of an afternoon sandstorm and so the president was confined to the airbase." (Click here for transcription of all three networks evening news coverage of the visit.) A dust storm, a sandstorm, "confined" Barack, made "travel impossible" and he "landed in the beginnings of" it. Lies. Lies and more lies.



As C.I. noted in Wednesday's "Iraq snapshot," there were no reports of a sandstorm. In the past, when one was coming, there were reports of it. Also true is Richard Engel reported from Baghdad on Tuesday, talking to vendors, for his report and, pay attention, there's no sandstorm going on around Richard.



But for those of you who need visual proof, we got that too.





Barack departing plane at Baghdad International Airport.









The caravan begins to move.







Caravan trucking.









Three photos. You see a sandstorm or dust storm in any of them? No, because there wasn't one. Nothing but clear skies, the White House lied.



The White House will keep playing Americans for chumps as long as Americans keep swallowing.