and all those truck convoys to Syria were???
Posted on 02/15/2011 7:05:40 PM PST by Suvroc10
WASHINGTON — The Iraqi defector whose claims that Saddam Hussein’s government had biological weapons became part of the Bush administration’s justification for the 2003 invasion of Iraq has admitted that he fabricated his story.
The defector, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who was code-named “Curveball” by the Central Intelligence Agency and German intelligence officials, told the British newspaper The Guardian on Tuesday that he had concocted his tale that Iraq was hiding mobile bioweapons laboratories. He did so, he said, in hopes that his lies would lead to the eventual overthrow of the Iraqi ruler.
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Hmmmm...and CIA didn’t know that he made it up? Doubt it.
So did England, Russia, and France, among others, who also believed and stated their belief of WMD’s in Iraq also using this guy’s word or had other evidence?
Sorry, I don’t believe it. I don’t believe he told some story that could not be at least partially authenticated. I believe that some time in the far away future, government documents will be released that will track those Weapons of Mass Destruction to some Valley in Syria.
What did the Iraqi’s do with the bioweapons they used on the Kurds. They came from Iraq, not the Dominican Republic. . .
I watched the move, The Green Zone, yesterday.
It had nearly the exact same theme, except that the guy was a high government official and he used the code name Magellan. He, too, made up the stories of WMD to get the US to invade so he could gain political power with Sadam’s exit.
Bush is not president anymore.
george tenent
Bread and circus..
The MSM has their orders. ‘make Obama look good’ and
You gotta bring up the boogeyman every once in a while to keep the peasants off Obama’s back.
‘I’m not Bush. Love me!’
Bread and circus..
The MSM has their orders. ‘make Obama look good’ and
You gotta bring up the boogeyman every once in a while to keep the peasants off Obama’s back.
‘I’m not Bush. Love me!’
smells like bs to me
Correct . Also there are rumors floating around about the start of WW2 . Win the future . These dopes talk about trains and sputniks . Onward into the past .
How much did the Obamanoids pay this guy for saying this just now?
and all those truck convoys to Syria were???
“I was lying back then, but, really, you can trust me now”!!! Yeah, um, NO!
Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi= IDIOT who wants his 15 minutes of fame.
There are quotes from Raper Clinton, Lurch Kerry, Mad Albright, Deaddy Kennedy that prove they ALL thought there were WMDs prior to Bush. (and, there WERE! Bush was right.)
IDIOT looking for attention from the oides that voted “sissy-boy” into office.
I said in fall of 2002 that this was probably the case.
Personally, I am thrilled for this guy and I totally agree. I am thrilled that Saddam Hussein is gone.
I am thrilled that the anti-war Movement lost. I think across the political spectrum the anti-war movement is a plainly anti-semitic and anti American movement without moral content. I have never observed or read of the movement protesting wars beyond those involving these two militaries.
Clearly, Saddam Hussein dropped chemical weapons on the Kurds and failing to prove that he did not have them— he got his just end.
Everything else is pro-genocide propaganda that should be seen for the moral emptiness that it is. There was no presumptive burden on the U.S. to prove Saddam had them. He had used them unlike any previous or thus far known sovereign.
I find it particularly ironic that Joe Wilson (yes, that Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame's Joe Wilson) was touring college campuses all across the nation during the three months preceding the invasion. His message:
That the U.S. shouldn't even think about invading Iraq.Why? Because Saddam Hussein had WMD.
And...he would use them.
Whaddaphony!
Yes, and I am not surprised.
I think one of the greatest improvements in security we presently enjoy is the humiliation and rhetorical subjugation of the antiwar movement and various frauds such as the NYT.
Global dictators now must recalibrate their consistent abuses to realize that the propensity of US warmaking is much higher and the threshold for murdering our troops and ‘vietnaming” America out of the war is also higher.
Obama certainly wants to repeal these successes in warfighting but even he has had to ‘surge’ in Afghanistan because it is the new American template for insurgencies instead of ‘tuck tail and run’— which was the previous US policy for far too many Presidents.
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