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pacalo

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36. He was strictly a tool for bolstering Dimson's/Shooter's reason to attack Iraq.

Reply to DefenseLawyer (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 18, 2012, 01:57 AM

Apr 2012

He might still be a tool. I'll take what he says with a grain of salt & lots of skepticism.

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"CURVEBALL" .."Man whose WMD Lies Led to 100,000 Deaths Confesses All" [View all] KoKo Apr 2012 OP

If it hadn't been him there were 100 more in line behind him. DefenseLawyer Apr 2012 #1

+1. He could very well be being paid to take them off the hook, too. HiPointDem Apr 2012 #6

He was strictly a tool for bolstering Dimson's/Shooter's reason to attack Iraq. pacalo Apr 2012 #36

Curveball? Turbineguy Apr 2012 #2

''We went to war in Iraq on a lie. And that lie was your lie.'' Octafish Apr 2012 #3

Remember Ahmed Chalabi....Curveball? KoKo Apr 2012 #14

''We are heroes in error.'' -- Ahmed Chalabi, interim oil minister of NewIraq 4.3. Octafish Apr 2012 #41

I think there needs to be some indictments Rosa Luxemburg Apr 2012 #26

Given the slight interest in this on this Democratic site...I wouldn't hold my breath.... KoKo Apr 2012 #28

That is my express rationale for continuing to bring these inconvenient truths up for discussion. Octafish Apr 2012 #42

right, uh uh. newspeak Apr 2012 #43

Yeah. I noticed that, too. Octafish Apr 2012 #47

These people manipulate for their own greed Rosa Luxemburg Apr 2012 #49

Sexed up huh...is that the same as 'fucking lied through their teeth?' Rex Apr 2012 #4

I can't get it out of my head get the red out Apr 2012 #15

That was a "joke" he did at one of the DC dinners--correspondents, or one similar. MADem Apr 2012 #22

Supposed to be funny, yes get the red out Apr 2012 #39

oh, the joke was not on the news media newspeak Apr 2012 #44

Well that's true get the red out Apr 2012 #45

I know, while he was bending over looking under tables Rex Apr 2012 #24

i blame the people who believed him 100% spanone Apr 2012 #5

I bet no US station will air it or report on it. ChairmanAgnostic Apr 2012 #7

if powell feels any rage, it's only because curveball's spilling it now. unblock Apr 2012 #8

Actually, Powell was said to have called the script he was given "bullshit", Art_from_Ark Apr 2012 #33

Ho Hum If it hadn't been him intaglio Apr 2012 #9

There's that word again, "confidence." Baitball Blogger Apr 2012 #10

Time to 'interrogate' Cheney for the truth from his end malaise Apr 2012 #11

I'm sure most of his countrymen would prefer Saddam had died Warpy Apr 2012 #12

"Intelligence was being worked to fit around the policy" gratuitous Apr 2012 #13

Won't be published here get the red out Apr 2012 #16

Yeah, and no shit gratuitous Apr 2012 #17

I wonder lsewpershad Apr 2012 #18

How is this man alive? felix_numinous Apr 2012 #19

Just a useful idiot. Daniel537 Apr 2012 #20

The decision was made to go in long before 9/11 Art_from_Ark Apr 2012 #34

Bullshit! He was nothing but a fig leaf for Cheney/Bush to cover their own lies. Uncle Joe Apr 2012 #21

Curveball could lie and lie all he wanted to. The Bush administration believed him and improved him. Bolo Boffin Apr 2012 #23

He was part of Judith Miller and Chalabi....so...I think his lies ...bore fruit.. KoKo Apr 2012 #25

exactly Rosa Luxemburg Apr 2012 #27

Curveball didn't talk to the Project for a New American Century. He talked to governments. Bolo Boffin Apr 2012 #31

Believed him? whatchamacallit Apr 2012 #29

Believed him. The Bush Administration didn't tell him what to say. n/t Bolo Boffin Apr 2012 #32

Where is the fucking outrage in all of this..... WCGreen Apr 2012 #30

I remember when I actually thought common sense would step in & the checks & balances pacalo Apr 2012 #35

Absolutely... WCGreen Apr 2012 #37

That's been the way our country has been run for a long time. Look at the Viet Nam War. Selatius Apr 2012 #38

When the U.S. wants to invade a nation RainDog Apr 2012 #40

Probably far more than 100K deaths. Plus maiming, destruction of families, loss of cultural wiggs Apr 2012 #46

Downing Street memos? Royal Sloan 09 Apr 2012 #48

He was drunk out of his mind and we only used the translation from the German interrogations underpants Apr 2012 #50

A nation of laws? 90-percent Apr 2012 #51