Man Whose WMD Lies Led To 100,000 Deaths Confesses All -- Military.com/The Independent
Defector tells how US officials 'sexed up' his fictions to make the case for 2003 invasion
A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq – starting a nine-year war costing more than 100,000 lives and hundreds of billions of pounds – will come clean in his first British television interview tomorrow.
"Curveball", the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, smiles as he confirms how he made the whole thing up. It was a confidence trick that changed the course of history, with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi's lies used to justify the Iraq war.
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Update: Iraqi defector whose phony WMD intel and "sexed up graphics" led to 100,000+ deaths: "Yes, I lied." -- Boing Boing
My Comment: No single man can provide evidence that will push a nation into war .... and blaming him for the war is a bit of a stretch. This war was an accumulative failure among the entire intelligence community, foreign governments, the media and pundit class, a Democrat/Republic Congress who overwhelmingly authorized the use of force .... and .... of course .... the man in the White House.