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Iraqi Defector 'Curveball' Says He Lied About WMD
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsThe Iraqi defector known as "Curveball," who provided the basis for U.S. claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, has admitted that he lied to intelligence agencies, a published report says. Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi told The Guardian newspaper he made up the stories about Saddam's arsenal because he wanted to hurt the Iraqi regime. "I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime," al-Janabi told The Guardian in a series of interviews. "I and my sons are proud of that, and we are proud that we were the reason to give Iraq the margin of democracy." The ...
Tony Blair Defends Invasion of Iraq at British Inquiry
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- At around 8:30 a.m. local time today, some 60 protesters started to muster outside central London's Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, waving placards declaring "Bliar" and "War Criminal." They were waiting for the arrival of the British anti-war movement's No. 1 enemy, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was to give evidence at an official inquiry into the causes and conduct of the Iraq War. But in the eight years since the U.K. joined the U.S.-led invasion, Blair has perfected the art of outfoxing angry Brits. The ex-prime minister was already safely inside the building by ...
How a Group of Zombies Defended the Right to Free Speech
By Tony Deconinck - AOL News(Aug. 26) -- The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the rights of free speech and peaceable assembly -- all it took was seven zombies and a simulated weapon of mass destruction. Last week, the City of Minneapolis agreed to pay $165,000 to the so-called Zombie Seven, settling a case that over four years came to address far more than zombie make-up. In 2006, seven friends got together in downtown Minneapolis as the city celebrated a weeklong Aquatennial. They were dressed like zombies and carried a few duffel bags filled with speakers and a microphone in what was supposed to be a ...
Ex-Hussein Deputy Tariq Aziz Wants US Troops to Stay in Iraq
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 6) -- The Guardian has scored the first post-Iraq invasion face-to-face interview with Tariq Aziz, Iraq's deputy prime minister and foreign minister under Saddam Hussein's rule. Aziz, who remains in prison in Baghdad, maintains that he is not guilty of any of the brutality perpetrated by the Hussein regime. "All decisions were taken by president Saddam Hussein. I held a political position, I did not participate in any of the crimes that were raised against me personally," Aziz said. "Out of hundreds of complaints, nobody has mentioned me in person." Aziz also said he knew Iraq had no ...
Round 4: Wehner vs. Corn on Bush and the Iraq War
By Peter Wehner - Politics DailyAs readers of Politics Daily are aware, David Corn and I have gone back and forth with one another on whether President Bush lied us into the Iraq war. The whole exchange was triggered by something I wrote here, which actually had nothing to do with the reasons we went to war. But my piece led to this , this , and this. In his most recent column on the subject, Corn went after me, my former White House colleague Karl Rove, and New York Times columnist Ross Douthat for daring to challenge the "Bush lied" mantra. Corn lists what he thinks is the strongest evidence to prove Bush lied -- and he ...
Can the 'Bush Lied' Deniers Handle the Truth?
By David Corn - Politics DailyBring it on. Conservative apologists for the George W. Bush crew are swinging hard these days to defend their man -- and themselves -- from the charge that W. and his gang misled the nation into war. They must worry that they are going to end up on the wrong side of history. After all, a 2008 Gallup poll found that 53 percent of Americans believed that the Bush administration "deliberately misled the American public about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction." (This was a big change from a poll taken two months after the 2003 invasion that noted that 67 percent believed that Bush had ...
Tony Blair: Jesus Christ or Richard Nixon?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared before a government-appointed panel in London Friday to answer questions about his role in the war in Iraq. It was, in many ways, the moment this country has been waiting for ever since Blair's government joined the United States in invading Iraq in 2003. And in a telling sign of just how torn up the U.K. is over this man -- and this conflict -- he was alternately compared to both Jesus Christ and Richard Nixon as he took the stand. ...
Ex-UN Inspector Faces Child-Sex Charges
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Jan. 14) – A former chief U.N. weapons inspector was recently arrested on charges of making unlawful sexual contact with a minor over the Internet, again. Scott Ritter, who searched Iraq for weapons of mass destruction from 1991 to 1998, has been accused of using an online chat client to send sexually explicit videos to an undercover officer posing as a 15-year-old girl, the Pocono Record reports. The incident allegedly took place in February 2009, but Ritter wasn't arrested until November because investigators had to obtain court orders to search his cell phone and computer for ...
Pentagon Report Warns of 'Technological Surprise'
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(Nov. 17) -- An area of science long rejected by the mainstream scientific community has caught the eye of a U.S. intelligence agency, which is now warning of the possibility of a new type of weapon of mass destruction. More than 20 years after two chemists in Utah claimed they were able to generate nuclear reactions at room temperature -- quickly dubbed cold fusion -- many scientists still ridicule the field. But a new report by the Defense Intelligence Agency claims that cold fusion could present a "technological surprise" to the United States. Nuclear fusion, such as the process that ...
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