Is this America’s most humiliating moment? The hubristic claque that ran our country–Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al–are revealed today to be ridiculous, ignorant goats. As revealed in The Guardian, “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.”
Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, the famously codenamed Curveball, admitted to the Guardian that “he fabricated tales of mobile bioweapons trucks and clandestine factories in an attempt to bring down Saddam Hussein. “Maybe I was right, maybe I was not right,” he said to reporters. “They gave me this chance. I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime. I and my sons are proud of that and we are proud that we were the reason to give Iraq the margin of democracy.” Janabi says that he regrets the deaths that occured during the resulting war. “I tell you something when I hear anybody – not just in Iraq but in any war – [is] killed, I am very sad. But give me another solution. Can you give me another solution? Believe me, there was no other way to bring about freedom to Iraq. There were no other possibilities.”
What’s terrible, of course, is not that our leaders made good-faith decisions based on poor intelligence. It’s that they willingly allowed themselves to believe wholly fabricated stories because it fit their agenda. Period.
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