Source of Iraq WMD Claim Admits He Lied

With all the talk from the tea party folks, you'd think they'd mention this as if it was an important story and part of our budget problem. So why do they ignore this? Why have they ignored it all along instead of demanding accountability?

Source of Iraq WMD Claim Admits He Lied

April 03, 2012
The Independent
by Jonathan Owen

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 dollars -- told British television Monday that his tales of WMD were lies. "Curveball," the Iraqi defector who made 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. He tries to defend his actions: "My main purpose was to topple the tyrant in Iraq because the longer this dictator remains in power, the more the Iraqi people will suffer from this regime's oppression."

 The chemical engineer claimed to have overseen the building of a mobile biological laboratory when he sought political asylum in Germany in 1999. His lies were presented as "facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence" by Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State, when making the case for war at the U.N. Security Council in February 2003. But Janabi, speaking in a two-part series, "Modern Spies," says none of it was true. When it is put to him "we went to war in Iraq on a lie. And that lie was your lie", he simply replied: "Yes."
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