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Old 11-03-2007, 10:24 AM
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Re: WMDs and The Psychology of Fanaticism, part 2

Anyone that fully read this thread started by Telos2000 where he regurgitated misinformation on the lead up to the Iraq war, should watch 60 Minutes this Sunday. Telos200 was wrong when he said that "intelligence from several different nations said Iraq had WMD." 60 Minutes will expose one aspect of the obfuscation the White House used to convince the American people to go to war; Iraq's chemical weapons build up as told by an informant known as "Curveball."

60 Minutes will show how the Germans and the CIA unsuccessfully tried to squelch the White House's continual claims, attributed to "Curveball," about Iraq's WMD.

60 Minutes will report that German intelligence felt the credibility of "Curveball," and the information he was providing on Iraq's chemical weapons were "suspicious at best." However, The White House, not the CIA, kept quoting to the American people the nonsense "Curveball" was telling the Germans. The program should be very informative on how the White House cherry picked, exaggerated, and equivocated information it disseminated to the American people to justify going to war with Iraq.
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