" I am satisfied ."
So says, Curveball, aka Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who fabricated every bit of the biological weapons claim presented in the infamous Colin Powell United Nations speech wherein he convinced the world leaders that Iraq was an imminent danger to us all.
More stunning than a desperate man making up a story to protect his family, is the fact that he never met with a US official.
He had been interviewed by German intelligence officers and the information was shared with British intelligence. British intelligence debunked all of his claims when they went into Iraq hoping to find confirmation. The Germans and the British both knew, by the time the U.S. used this bogus information to justify "Shock and Awe", that Curveball wasn't pitching straight.
So, did U.S. intelligence know? Did Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield and Rove know? Were they so busy looking for something to justify what they already knew that they didn't bother to check for veracity? Or were they informed that it was bad intel and they used it anyway?
How many more details of incompetency and deceit must be revealed before we can face the reality that these men need to be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Over 100,000 civilian deaths. Because a guy made up a story that Bush wanted to hear. Millions of lives destroyed. A country reduced to rubble. Trillions of dollars, billions of which have gone missing .
Hey, but at least Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janab is "satisfied."