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"Curveball" Speaks
A reporter for the Los Angeles Times landed a rare interview with the Iraqi known as "Curveball," the now-discredited source on whom the Bush Administration rested much of its case for Iraq having weapons of mass destruction.
Living in Germany and speaking out for the first time, "Curveball" says everyone has been lying about him:
"I never said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, never in my whole life," he said. "I challenge anyone in the world to get a piece of paper from me, anything with my signature, that proves I said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."How did the Bush administration get it so wrong?
"I'm not the source of these problems," he said.
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I want to hear Changeup's take on this. I hope he hasn't flip-flopped from his prior position.
And send Knuckler's phone number to my Personal Digital Assistant.
What, can't find their contact information? Go thru 43's rolodex -- he used to be the manager of the Texas Rangers, so he should be able to pitch this one to us.
June 17, 2008 6:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
I believe him.
There is nothing, in anyone's accounts of the whole, sorry stove-pipe/cherry-pick episode, that could convince a reasonable person the White House was interested in the truth. The Administration was interested in building a public case for war; it knew the evidence to be false. Jayson Blair and Squeaky Fromme would've been looped in if they'd been willing to burble on about WMD.
And no one - aside from sites like this one - is busting them for it...
June 17, 2008 6:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
When do we get a peek at Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl, the Brooklyn-born "informant" who introuced the world to al qaeda?
June 17, 2008 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Chalabi is definitely guilty of running a scam on the USA.
But you could make a mitigating argument that the Dubya Cabal constituted an attractive nuisance. They were a bunch of marks ripe for the picking.
Pathetic.
June 17, 2008 10:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/8798997/the_man_who_sold_the_war/
The above link is to a great article by James Banford that ran in Rolling Stone in November of '05. It is about John Rendon and the Rendon Group. Curveball failed polygraph tests.
June 17, 2008 11:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
This guy must be related to Larry Sinclair.
June 18, 2008 12:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
That picture of Tenet makes me nauseous.
June 18, 2008 6:10 PM | Reply | Permalink