Just when the Bush administration thought they’d quelled the controversy surrounding bogus uranium-related claims in the State of the Union Address, more evidence surfaced today about other assertions from the speech.

“Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.”

In a memo to the White House upon reading a draft of the speech, the CIA cautioned against making this statement, saying, “The report about said materials was apparently cribbed from a 1976 Bazooka Joe comic, and cannot be considered an accurate source.”

” The United Nations concluded that Saddam Hussein had materials sufficient to produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin — enough to subject millions of people to death by respiratory failure.”

The UN has strongly disputed this statement, asserting that they were talking about the number of large plastic barrels possessed by the Iraqis, and that Bush had unaccountably substituted the word “produce” for the original “contain.”

” The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax — enough doses to kill several million people.”

A misstatement. The UN report indicated that the Baghdad area had 13,000 goats that, if infected with anthrax and then pureed, would then amount to “25,000 liters of non-weapons-grade pureed goat.”

” Yet for those already addicted, the fight against drugs is a fight for their own lives. Too many Americans in search of treatment cannot get it. So tonight I propose a new $600-million program to help an additional 300,000 Americans receive treatment over the next three years.”

Inaccurate. Of the $600 million, one third went to the development of Exxon’s now-defunct “Kick Smack Through Driving SUV’s” campaign. Another $300 million went to the treatment of Noelle Bush.