SFC Ollie
Still Marching
Since so many liked my post noted below and since they so nicely repped me, I thought it only appropriate that I post this latest bit of information. At the time I actually googled this topic and found it to be false. One of the senior officials was on TV the other evening, he actually claimed it didn't matter what contrary information was given, Bush Cheney wanted war and they got it. Two draft dodgers yet!
http://www.usmessageboard.com/polit...-leftists-better-thank-dubya.html#post3319968
'Defector Admits to WMD Lies That Helped Trigger Iraq War'
by Martin Chulov and Helen Pidd in Karlsruhe
"The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons programme has admitted for the first time that he lied about his story, then watched in shock as it was used to justify the war."
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"The admission comes just after the eighth anniversary of Colin Powell's speech to the United Nations in which the then-US secretary of state relied heavily on lies that Janabi had told the German secret service, the BND. It also follows the release of former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld's memoirs, in which he admitted Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction programme.
The careers of both men were seriously damaged by their use of Janabi's claims, which he now says could have been and were discredited well before Powell's landmark speech to the UN on 5 February 2003." Defector Admits to WMD Lies That Helped Trigger Iraq War | Common Dreams
We've known that curveball lied for years now, since we didn't find any of his claims after the invasion. But read the Duelfer report to see the truth of what was found.