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He is top shelf intelligent/eloquent and fielded a LOT of tough questions from int'l jounalists

I do not have time to watch a dictator's pampered fucking child make the case for being the new dictator.

I seriously do not have time to watch a dictator's pampered fucking child make the case for me to finance his return to dictatorial power.

Fuck the Pahlavis.

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Who was Curveball in Iraq

Curveball" was the cryptonym for Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, an Iraqi defector who lied to German and US intelligence about Iraq possessing mobile biological weapon laboratories. His fabricated claims were heavily used by the Bush administration to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq and were notably featured in Colin Powell’s 2003 UN speech.

Key Details About Curveball:


Fabricated Intelligence: Al-Janabi claimed to be a chemical engineer at a plant manufacturing biological weapons, a story he created to gain asylum in Germany.

Motivation: He later confessed he lied in hopes of sparking a war to remove Saddam Hussein from power.

Dubious Sources: German intelligence (BND) warned the CIA that Curveball was unreliable and potentially a liar, yet his information was still used.

War Justification: Despite the doubts, his testimony provided key evidence for the US case that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

Al-Janabi, a German-French citizen, later confessed to his fabrications in 2011, admitting his story was "one big lie" that helped spark the war.