Rob sent me this: "As`ad, look at this weasel language here in The Independent: "But
Mr Janabi, speaking in a two-part series, Modern Spies, starting tomorrow on
BBC2, says none of it was true. When it is put to him "we went to war in Iraq on
a lie. And that lie was your lie", he simply replies: "Yes." US
officials "sexed up" Mr Janabi's drawings of mobile biological weapons labs to
make them more presentable, admits Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, General Powell's
former chief of staff. "I brought the White House team in to do the graphics,"
he says, adding how "intelligence was being worked to fit around the
policy".
As
for his former boss: "I don't see any way on this earth that Secretary Powell
doesn't feel almost a rage about Curveball and the way he was used in regards to
that intelligence.""
[me
again] Janabi should hang his head in shame concerning his role in ginning up
the goddamn war (if an atheist is allowed to say goddamn--I still like the word)
on Iraq['s people]. But look at the white man's gall in trying to portray the
biggest victims of the affair as the very scumbags that worked the hardest to
sell it and were in the best positions to do so!
Anyway,
look at the whole article so you can decide if I'm being unfair, if you want: