The Man Who Sold The War

[Furtherman]

<p>...and excellent read for those who are still buying it.</p><p><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8798997" target="_blank">Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war</a> </p><p>What it is about:</p><p>On December 17th, 2001, in a small room within the sound of the crashing tide, a CIA officer attached metal electrodes to the ring and index fingers of a man sitting pensively in a padded chair.</p><p>Strapped to the polygraph machine was Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri, a forty-three-year-old Iraqi who had fled his homeland in Kurdistan and was now determined to bring down Saddam Hussein...he insisted repeatedly that he was a civil engineer who had helped Saddam's men to secretly bury tons of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. </p><p>It was damning stuff -- just the kind of evidence the Bush administration was looking for. There was only one problem: It was all a lie.&nbsp; </p><p>The fabrication might have ended there, the tale of another political refugee trying to scheme his way to a better life. But just because the story wasn't true didn't mean it couldn't be put to good use. Al-Haideri, in fact, was the product of a clandestine operation -- part espionage, part PR campaign -- that had been set up and funded by the CIA and the Pentagon for the express purpose of selling the world a war. And the man who had long been in charge of the marketing was a secretive and mysterious creature of the Washington establishment named John Rendon.</p>

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[spoon]

Hey the good news is that Jeb Bush is now seriously thinking about running in 08.&nbsp; Just what we need.&nbsp; And I'm sure he'd get a ton of red state votes still.&nbsp; Why not just start a idiotic royal family?&nbsp; Democracy my fucking ass.

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[PapaBear]

<p>Why don't we have a Consitutional amendment that states, &quot;Every other President should be named Clinton, then Bush&quot;. We could have Hillary in '08, Jeb Bush in '16, Chelsea in '20, and one of the Bush twins after that.</p>

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[A.J.]

Fine.&nbsp; As long as there are no more Kennedys.

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[PapaBear]

<font style="font-size: 9px" face="Verdana">quote: </font>Fine.&nbsp; As long as there are no more Kennedys. <img src="http://img40.photobucket.com/albums/v124/Canofsoup15/Sigs/AJinDC-Sig.jpg" border="0" /> A Skidmark/canofsoup15 production.<font color="#ff0000"><strong>Red Sox Nation</strong></font>Being the Vice President to a Kennedy would be AWESOME!!! You'd be guaranteed&nbsp; the eventual Presidency.<br />

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[Yerdaddy]

<p>I'll read this tonight. I just read another interesting article with new information about the bullshit intelligence and the selling of the war:</p><p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-curveball20nov20,1,6272293,full.story?coll=la-headlines-sports-coll-ucla&ctrack=1&cset=true" target="_blank">How U.S. Fell Under the Spell of 'Curveball'</a></p><p>BERLIN &mdash; The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein's suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush administration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his claims during the run-up to the war in Iraq. </p><p>Five senior officials from Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, said in interviews with The Times that they warned U.S. intelligence authorities that the source, an Iraqi defector code-named Curveball, never claimed to produce germ weapons and never saw anyone else do so.<br />The German authorities, speaking about the case for the first time, also said that their informant suffered from emotional and mental problems. &quot;He is not a stable, psychologically stable guy,&quot; said a BND official who supervised the case. &quot;He is not a completely normal person,&quot; agreed a BND analyst.</p><p>Curveball was the chief source of inaccurate prewar U.S. accusations that Baghdad had biological weapons, a commission appointed by Bush reported this year.<br />An investigation by The Times based on interviews since May with about 30 current and former intelligence officials in the U.S., Germany, England, Iraq and the United Nations, as well as other experts, shows that U.S. bungling in the Curveball case was worse than official reports have disclosed. </p><p>The White House, for example, ignored evidence gathered by United Nations weapons inspectors shortly before the war that disproved Curveball's account. Bush and his aides issued increasingly dire warnings about Iraq's biological weapons before the war even though intelligence from Curveball had not changed in two years.</p><p>At the Central Intelligence Agency, officials embraced Curveball's account even though they could not confirm it or interview him until a year after the invasion. They ignored multiple warnings about his reliability before the war, punished in-house critics who provided proof that he had lied and refused to admit error until May 2004, 14 months after the invasion. </p><p>After the CIA vouched for Curveball's accounts, Bush declared in his 2003 State of the Union speech that Iraq had &quot;mobile biological weapons labs&quot; designed to produce &quot;germ warfare agents.&quot; Bush cited the mobile germ factories in at least four prewar speeches and statements, and other world leaders repeated the charge.</p><p>Powell also highlighted Curveball's &quot;eyewitness&quot; account when he warned the United Nations Security Council on the eve of war that Iraq's mobile labs could brew enough weapons-grade microbes &quot;in a single month to kill thousands upon thousands of people.&quot;</p><p>The senior BND officer who supervised Curveball's case said he was aghast when he watched Powell misstate Curveball's claims as a justification for war.</p>

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