The current issue of Time Magazine has a small piece relating that the CIA source used to fabricate -- er, sorry -- used to rationalize the reason for the United States to go to war against Iraq and Sadaam Hussein recently related to the United Kingdom publication Guardian that he lied about the information he provided to the U.S. government via its ally, Germany. "Rafid Ahmed al-Janabi ... confirmed in an interview with the U.K.'s Guardian that he lied about the existence of a secret biological-weapons program in Iraq to instigate regime change."
This kind gentleman, who was a former chemical engineer in Iraq, admitted to the falsehoods provided to intelligence agencies detailing mobile bio-weapons labs and covert factories to facilitate extra-governmental military interaction in his home nation for the purpose of removing Sadaam Hussein from power. "Those falsehoods buttressed the U.S.'s case for invading Iraq the next month."
And here I thought there was only one source of lies that constructed the reason behind the invasion of Iraq and the subsequent eight-plus year occupation. I am amazed (chuckle) to find that the magnificently intelligent leader of the United States at that time could be duped into inciting a war based upon one man's fervent testimony that weapons of mass destruction existed on hidden caravans maneuvering throughout the desert. Shouldn't the camels pulling those labs have glowed, or something?
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