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In reply to the discussion: "CURVEBALL" .."Man whose WMD Lies Led to 100,000 Deaths Confesses All" [View all]unblock
(52,243 posts)8. if powell feels any rage, it's only because curveball's spilling it now.
i don't see any way on this earth that secretary powell didn't know damn well that the evidence was fabricated.
he certainly knew damn well that shrub wanted the war long before the case was built.
he certainly knew damn well that "intelligence was being worked to fit around the policy".
he certainly knew damn well the point was to convince congress and the public.
and he certainly knew if there ACTUALLY WAS a clear and present danger, they would have taken military action first and asked congress for forgiveness later.
NO WAY powell didn't know curveball was full of it.
and i'm not even talking about how many, many people outside of the shrub administration were convinced that he was lying.
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''We are heroes in error.'' -- Ahmed Chalabi, interim oil minister of NewIraq 4.3.
Octafish
Apr 2012
#41
Given the slight interest in this on this Democratic site...I wouldn't hold my breath....
KoKo
Apr 2012
#28
That is my express rationale for continuing to bring these inconvenient truths up for discussion.
Octafish
Apr 2012
#42
That was a "joke" he did at one of the DC dinners--correspondents, or one similar.
MADem
Apr 2012
#22
Actually, Powell was said to have called the script he was given "bullshit",
Art_from_Ark
Apr 2012
#33
Bullshit! He was nothing but a fig leaf for Cheney/Bush to cover their own lies.
Uncle Joe
Apr 2012
#21
Curveball could lie and lie all he wanted to. The Bush administration believed him and improved him.
Bolo Boffin
Apr 2012
#23
Curveball didn't talk to the Project for a New American Century. He talked to governments.
Bolo Boffin
Apr 2012
#31
I remember when I actually thought common sense would step in & the checks & balances
pacalo
Apr 2012
#35
That's been the way our country has been run for a long time. Look at the Viet Nam War.
Selatius
Apr 2012
#38
Probably far more than 100K deaths. Plus maiming, destruction of families, loss of cultural
wiggs
Apr 2012
#46
He was drunk out of his mind and we only used the translation from the German interrogations
underpants
Apr 2012
#50