Isn’t It Interesting How War Supporters Always Want To “Move Past” How This Country Was Duped Into War?

1:56 am EST November 3rd, 2007 | News | 2 Comments

Intriguing as hell, says I.

The Iraqi defector code-named “Curveball,” whose false tales of biological weapons labs bolstered the U.S. case for war, wasn’t the prominent chemical engineer he claimed to be and invented stories to help his case for asylum in Germany, a new report says.

“Curveball” is Rafid Ahmed Alwan, who did study chemical engineering but made poor grades and never managed a biological weapons facility, according to CBS’ “60 Minutes,” which will broadcast on Sunday a report describing how Alwan became a secret intelligence source.

Although known publicly only by his code name, Curveball has been repeatedly discredited by investigations of the United States’ faulty prewar intelligence and became an embarrassment to U.S. spy agencies. A presidential intelligence commission found that Curveball, who mostly told his stories to German intelligence officials who passed them on to the U.S., was a fabricator and an alcoholic.

An alcoholic liar, and Dick Cheney and George W. Bush believed every word he said. Perhaps this explains some of the skepticism about “Iran’s nuclear program” by fifth columnists like myself?

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2 Responses to “Isn’t It Interesting How War Supporters Always Want To “Move Past” How This Country Was Duped Into War?”

  1. pawtrax says:
    November 3, 2007 at 2:41 pm

    there are still war supporters?

  2. vn54u8fh says:
    November 3, 2007 at 10:01 pm

    “An alcoholic liar, and Dick Cheney and George W. Bush believed every word he said.”
    W recognized a kindred spirit.