Iraqi defector admits lying about WMD claims

[qiinson]

Here's the shameless tale.

Well, if he didn't do it they (US government) would have found somebody else who would give them what they wanted. :2 cents:

 

[Ulysses31]

Here's the shameless tale.

Well, if he didn't do it they (US government) would have found somebody else who would give them what they wanted. :2 cents:

No doubt he is being well rewarded for taking the fall for this. It's sad to think advanced nations such as the US and UK would commit thousands of their own men to war and destabalise a sovereign country on the word of one man, you need more evidence than that to convict someone of petty fraud

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...told-Blair-Bush-Saddams-WMDs-admits-lied.html

 

[D-rock]

No doubt he is being well rewarded for taking the fall for this. It's sad to think advanced nations such as the US and UK would commit thousands of their own men to war and destabalise a sovereign country on the word of one man, you need more evidence than that to convict someone of petty fraud

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...told-Blair-Bush-Saddams-WMDs-admits-lied.html

He was also somebody that some competent people actually questioned his information's trustworthiness also. The more rational people didn't win out however.

Not to mention all the evidence that pointed the other way that was ignored. He was just somebody that became a convenient excuse to do what the Bush administration wanted. The U.S. and other nations didn't believe him so much because they thought he was right, but because they wanted what he said to be the truth so it would give them their flimsily justification to act how they did.

 

[Doc Scurlock]

This really isn't that big of a surprise as it seems Bush and friends really were hell bent on taking over Iraq and just needed any excuse to do it.

 

[emceeemcee]

So curveball was a liar and Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi's 'intelligence' was obtained under torture.




Have we learned our lesson yet? I doubt it...

 

[HE1FiNEARTiST]

This really isn't that big of a surprise as it seems Bush and friends really were hell bent on taking over Iraq and just needed any excuse to do it.

so true..... so true :o

we couldnt just attack or we would have been charged for war crimes..... we'll take that excuse

 

[Hot Mega]

Not sure how big a story this should be. It's almost common knowledge he and others were paid to fabricate evidence against Saddam's regime by the US and GB under Operation Rockingham.

Ahmed Chalabi was paid over 30 million over 3 years to coalesce the lies and half truths leading up to the invasion in '03.