Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all

costing more than 100,000 lives

That has to be the understatement of the year. And this guy will have karma for many lives; or in a different viewpoint will have a ocean of fire storefront beachhouse in the afterlife. He is obviously a perfect example of a psycho/sociopath.

Originally posted by Blackmarketeer
Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all
(independent.co.uk)

A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq – starting a nine-year war costing more than 100,000 lives and hundreds of billions of pounds – will come clean in his first British television interview tomorrow.

"Curveball", the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, smiles as he confirms how he made the whole thing up. It was a confidence trick that changed the course of history, with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi's lies used to justify the Iraq war.

He tries to defend his actions: "My main purpose was to topple the tyrant in Iraq because the longer this dictator remains in power, the more the Iraqi people will suffer from this regime's oppression."

Chalabi was just an expedient tool for the Bush admin. to get it's war, justified or not. He is now confessing the WMD's were a lie, a convenient way for him to get Saddam out of power, with America getting it's hands on Iraqi oil - and it's defense contractors getting rich(er) in the process. Total cost of that war is estimated at over three trillion dollars.

The True Cost of the Iraq War: $3 Trillion and Beyond

They can try to lay all the blame on this sorry excuse of a human being but the fact is the US supposedly had undeniable proof of WMD that they held god knows how many press conferences showing pictures of these weapons. The lies started from the top with the aid of Chalabi and others like him whom they paid to tell those lies. Mister Chalabi have to live with the fact he participated with the slaughter of his own people so he can smile and justify his actions but the truth is he lied and it cost others.

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So the US goverment took the word of one person with zero evidence? One guy does not make a scapegoat for the overall reason we went in there.