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Posted by: Wil 1 year, 5 months ago

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The Iraqi defector known as Curveball, whose fabricated stories of "mobile biological weapons labs" helped lead the U.S. to war four years ago, is still being protected by the German intelligence service. Curveball's false tales became the centerpiece of Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech before the United Nations in February 2003.

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doppich1 year, 5 months ago

Over three thousand Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead, but Curveball has a nice life in Germany and Dick Cheney is still vice president of the US. Bearing false witness has its payoffs, apparently.
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vor1 year, 5 months ago

"The CIA has since issued an official "burn notice" formally retracting more than 100 intelligence reports based on his information."
This information should not be destroyed. Douglas Feith and Dick Cheney need to be questioned under oath over this matter.
How did those lines end up back in Powell's speech? He must have read them and known he was a dead man walking. Just as Cheney desired. He was a weak link. Did not share the neo-con view.
The Germans told us long before that Curveball was a drunk and a pathological liar. Don't expect to see maybe 10 votes on this story. The American people really don't want to know how corrupt their government is. This isn't about bashing Bush. It is about finding out the truth about why we are in Iraq.
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vor1 year, 5 months ago

21 VOTES. Posters view this page and have no comment. Those of you calling for impeachment should be reading this. This might be an episode that can be tracked straight back to Cheney. Someone put those words back into Powell's specch that had been removed only hours before. Who was that? And who ordered their restoration? Who thought Curveball as critical to their case.
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    nakedtruth1 year, 5 months ago
    
    To get a conviction of a crime you need method, motive and opportunity. The "Downing street memo" proves motive. The curveball disinformation was the method. Powell's U.N. speech was the opportunity.
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      Beau78901 year, 5 months ago
      
      And, you need the "smoking gun." What would that be in this case?
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        vor1 year, 5 months ago
        
        That would likely be a memo from Cheney's office to Feith authorizing him to push this information forward to Tenet as fact. Or something showing that Cheney authorized the reinsertion of this flawed evidence into Powells speech. Nobody appears to be looking. There must be something there. Or possibly the dated advice from the Germans as to Curveballs worthiness. The evidence is there, where is the prosecution?
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        Beau78901 year, 5 months ago
        
        I'm sure it's there, but you're right--no one's been looking.
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nakedtruth1 year, 5 months ago

It's interesting that this came out right on the heels of information about an "Iranian defector" that may "make the case for war" with that country.
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  Wil1 year, 5 months ago
  
  With just about everything the Bush administration, their enablers, and their apologists say with regard to Iran, you can simply look over transcripts and news reports, and trade out the word "Iraq."
  It is stunning to me that Americans aren't taking the president's words to heart: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice ya-- you . . . you can't get fooled again."
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COMNCNTS1 year, 5 months ago

Get a clue about Saddams weapons. Does the word MOBILE mean anything to anyone. Its not like we dropped in unannounced. Go to California and find a couple of tractor trailers with license plate numbers 8nw0009,5wt3879,mnv5670 and bgg4529. Not to mention they could be burried or moved out of the state of California. By the way the people that have these tractor trailors have known you were coming for over a month now.
Good Luck
Now you can see why we have not found them. Just because you do not see them does not mean they were not there.
Is it really that hard to believe that he couldve gotten rid of them because he knew his time was running out. From his point of view (which is why he was hiding in his hole) if the Americans came in and didnt find any then he figured there would be political pressure on the U.S. to restore him to power. Thankfully the world was not stupid enough to fall for his plan.

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