Iraqi defector ‘Curveball’ details lies that led to war
Source: The Raw Story
Curveball, the Iraqi defector who fed the Bush Administration bogus claims of mobile weapons labs being developed by Saddam Hussein claims that were later gussied up and presented to the United Nations as incontrovertible fact is finally explaining the tall tale that helped launch Americas military.
My main purpose was to topple the tyrant in Iraq because the longer this dictator remains in power, the more the Iraqi people will suffer from this regimes oppression, he recently told a filmmaker with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
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Al-Janabis frightening tales of a reconstituted biological weapons program were so integral to the Bush Administrations case for war that they became the basis of General Colin Powells testimony to the U.N. Powell has since walked that testimony back by explaining that the intelligence provided by al-Janabi was shaky, but remained the best information they had at the time.
Powells former top aide, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, has spent years covering for Powell on that point, insisting that his former boss was misled by Vice President Dick Cheney, who allegedly cherry-picked intelligence to support the Administrations decision to invade.
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/03/iraqi-defector-curveball-details-lies-that-led-to-war/?utm_source=Raw+Story+Daily+Update&utm_campaign=cbc72ff3e3-4_3_124_3_2012&utm_medium=email
This is the man who gave Bush the issue he used to get "elected" in 2004. The pathetic American media displayed no skepticism and refused to puncture the obvious half truths and white lies coming from the neoconservatives.
anti-alec
(420 posts)to George W. Bush, Halliburton, Xe, and any other US-based companies that did nothing but profit off the misery of the war.
And have the collectors go at them - give them the most aggressive form of collection.
Bill is way past due - 10 years past due.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)dotymed
(5,610 posts)to slime ball for the B.S. lies he told or went along with? "We" were paying millions of dollars in "bounties" to neighbors for turning in neighbors.....America, in it's current form is totally unsustainable. We must make the wealthy pay their fair share. Instead we bail them out, prop them up and have our kids dying to " protect our freedoms."
I am so proud that we are a Democracy and the greatest country on earth (even if it is only a few thousand years old)....
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)they should be imprisoned.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)Let's hear it for "Hope and Change" ...
Go get 'em cowboy!!
MADem
(135,425 posts)struggle4progress
(118,309 posts)Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)Cut budgets, cut personell, cut over-reaching laws. All of it.
think
(11,641 posts)lutefisk
(3,974 posts)Is he ever going to be mad! I can't wait!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Just as effective as it was in 1990, and nobody will ever pay for the ensuing war crimes. Curveball was the new Nayirah, and his specious claims were every bit as vetted as hers by an incurious popular media hungry for pretty pictures of stuff blowing up reel gud.
polly7
(20,582 posts)of oil and resources, central banks, etc ......... are so 'believable', and would never be investigated or challenged or doubted ..... because they're so useful, and we all know, what's done is done.