An alcoholic liar, and Dick Cheney and George W. Bush believed every word he said

Isn't It Interesting How War Supporters Always Want To "Move Past" How This Country Was Duped Into War? By Oliver Willis on November 3, 2007 1:56 AM Intriguing as hell, says I. The Iraqi defector code-named "Curveball," whose false tales of biological weapons labs bolstered the U.S. case for war, wasn't the prominent chemical engineer he claimed to be and invented stories to help his case for asylum in Germany, a new report says. "Curveball" is Rafid Ahmed Alwan, who did study chemical engineering but made poor grades and never managed a biological weapons facility, according to CBS' "60 Minutes," which will broadcast on Sunday a report describing how Alwan became a secret intelligence source. Although known publicly only by his code name, Curveball has been repeatedly discredited by investigations of the United States' faulty prewar intelligence and became an embarrassment to U.S. spy agencies. A presidential intelligence commission found that Curveball, who mostly told his stories to German intelligence officials who passed them on to the U.S., was a fabricator and an alcoholic. An alcoholic liar, and Dick Cheney and George W. Bush believed every word he said. Perhaps this explains some of the skepticism about "Iran's nuclear program" by fifth columnists like myself?

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The Problem with Bush

Just ahead of my Saturday's broadcast of Situation Awareness ("Poison the Well, Salt the Earth") comes this excellent article from Oliver Willis ("2008: George Bush The Pariah").

In 2008, there will be a sitting Republican president with an approval rating ranging between probably 25-32% percent. In many ways the election will be the fork in the road 2004 should have been: stay the course or change direction. In order to garner their party's nomination, Republicans have pandered to the base by essentially endorsing a continuation of Bush's strategy in Iraq. It is a course of events violently opposed by Democrats and now Independents. The Republican party is going to have a George Bush problem, I think. (read the entire article)

Be sure to tune in to Situation Awareness this Saturday at 10:00am Eastern Time (-05:00 GMT) .

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