Republicans get away with murder.
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‘Curveball’ Lied about Iraqi WMD Because He Had a Problem with Saddam Hussein’s Regime
Informant Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, better known as ‘Curveball’, has admitted he fabricated claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction to get rid of Saddam’s regime. His claims were used by the Bush administration to invade Iraq in March 2003.
Curveball told the BND, Gemany’s secret service, that Saddam’s regime had mobile bioweapons trucks and several secret factories producing chemical and biological weapons.
Strangely enough, the American government continued to take him seriously despite warnings from BND questioning the authenticity of his claims.
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell described the Iraqi defector as an “Iraqi chemical engineer who supervised one of these facilities” and used a computer generated image of a mobile biological weapons laboratory during his presentation at the United Nations on February 5, 2003.
“He actually was present during biological agent production runs and was also at the site when an accident occurred in 1998,” said Powell to the UN.
“Maybe I was right, maybe I was not right. They gave me this chance. I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime. I and my sons are proud of that and we are proud that we were the reason to give Iraq the margin of democracy,” said Curveball.
Curveball said he was comfortable with what he did, despite the war that followed.
“I had to do something for my country, so I did this and I am satisfied because there is no dictator in Iraq any more,” he added.
Since early 2000, Janabi, who now lives in Germany, has met with BND officials. BND provided the American government with reports, but has never allowed meetings with the C.I.A..
This report comes days after Donald Rumsfeld’s admission that the decision to wage war on Iraq was a “mistake”.
source: US News Source
‘Curveball’ Lied about Iraqi WMD Because He Had a Problem with Saddam Hussein’s Regime
Informant Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, better known as ‘Curveball’, has admitted he fabricated claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction to get rid of Saddam’s regime. His claims were used by the Bush administration to invade Iraq in March 2003.
Curveball told the BND, Gemany’s secret service, that Saddam’s regime had mobile bioweapons trucks and several secret factories producing chemical and biological weapons.
Strangely enough, the American government continued to take him seriously despite warnings from BND questioning the authenticity of his claims.
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell described the Iraqi defector as an “Iraqi chemical engineer who supervised one of these facilities” and used a computer generated image of a mobile biological weapons laboratory during his presentation at the United Nations on February 5, 2003.
“He actually was present during biological agent production runs and was also at the site when an accident occurred in 1998,” said Powell to the UN.
“Maybe I was right, maybe I was not right. They gave me this chance. I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime. I and my sons are proud of that and we are proud that we were the reason to give Iraq the margin of democracy,” said Curveball.
Curveball said he was comfortable with what he did, despite the war that followed.
“I had to do something for my country, so I did this and I am satisfied because there is no dictator in Iraq any more,” he added.
Since early 2000, Janabi, who now lives in Germany, has met with BND officials. BND provided the American government with reports, but has never allowed meetings with the C.I.A..
This report comes days after Donald Rumsfeld’s admission that the decision to wage war on Iraq was a “mistake”.
Never in our history has a war been waged without some type of corresponding tax increase. Hell, even the Spanish American war was paid for with increases to the telegraph taxes. However, you and I both know that none of this matters as the real source of our current economic troubles is not a multi-trillion dollar two-front war, but instead greedy welfare dependent minorities and the community reinvestment act. 
