Thursday, November 01, 2007

If you would like the opportunity to blame the Iraq war on somebody besides Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the voters. Well here you go.

60 Minutes has identified the man whose fabricated story of Iraqi biological weapons drove the U.S. argument for invading Iraq. It has also obtained video of "Curve Ball," as he was known in intelligence circles, and discovered he was not only a liar, but also a thief and a poor student instead of the chemical engineering whiz he claimed to be.

Curve Ball is an Iraqi defector named Rafid Ahmed Alwan, who arrived at a German refugee center in 1999. To bolster his asylum case and increase his importance, he told officials he was a star chemical engineer who had been in charge of a facility at Djerf al Nadaf that was making mobile biological weapons.

The only people who could have possibly believed this guy were those that desperately wanted what he said to be true. Those people who were looking for a reason to invade Iraq.

And these are the same people who are trying to find a reason to invade Iran. It just makes you wonder who he next "curveball" will be.

What a bunch of amateurs!

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