Curveball has finally admitted that he made the entire thing up. If you recall, we went to war in Iraq based on the claim that Saddam Hussein had developed biological weapons. That account was based on the statements of Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who our foreign allies warned was unreliable and clearly lying. However, President Bush and his aides were set upon invading Iraqi and relied on Curveball before the United Nations. He has now come out publicly to admit he fabricated the entire thing and could not believe the Americans relied upon his stories to launch a major war.
The interview was published on the eighth anniversary of Colin Powell’s speech to the United Nations
He says that foreign intelligence officials were so keen on confirming biological weapons that they gave him a copy of Perry’s Chemical Engineering Handbook to help communicate. He still has the book, which he used to fabricate the stories. However, he admitted to making up the stories in mid-2000.
Of course, President Obama has continued to expend treasure and lives in Iraq in the ultimate example of the economic theory of “path dependence.” We continue to fight a war based on a fabricated story because our leaders cannot risk the political repercussions to pulling out from that country. There is also no known punishment for the officials, including high-ranking CIA and Administration officials, who perpetuated this lie. At best this was an act of willful blindness and at worst knowing falsification to justify going to war.
Our intelligence officials appear to continue to accept a good fabricated story over bad facts. Recently, they paid an enormous amount of money to an imposter who pretended to be the head of Taliban in Afghanistan, here. American officials even flew the imposter to meet with Karzai before finding out that he was lying.
Source: Guardian
Buddha:
You never get under my skin. I wouldn’t let you get that close. But it appears I got under Blouise’s, otherwise she wouldn’t have responded as she did: you were just collateral damage, so-to-speak. In other words I “HAD” to discuss you (as opposed to WANTING to discuss you).
My opinions about the lawful powers of the Federal government as the Constitution is written has nothing to do with my Christian obligations to others (which you know nothing about because you don’t know me). You pretend it is.
I realize this confuses you greatly.
Leftists have to be forced at gunpoint to care for others because leftists are naturally evil and generally wouldn’t think to do it without being forced to. One has to force a left-winger at gunpoint to be charitable because they are too stupid to do it otherwise (or they would have done it already). I understand this.
Christians, as any intelligent and informed person knows, help others like no other group in history. And they do this, not by gunpoint, but by faith and love. This is opposite of the criminally-minded liberals, progressives, and Democrats who do always need to stomp the necks of people to get them to “behave”.
No rational person could come to the conclusion that I am opposed to rights when I’m one of the biggest defenders of the Constitution at this blog. The Constitution is all about rights and securing them. It is those who trample the Constitution who are not interested in rights. And, I do acknowledge you are interested in rights. I don’t think I ever said you weren’t.
Still, you create for me, a false characterization of what a Christian should be and then when I don’t live up to your corrupt and false characterization, you leap to attack, not my non-compliance, but what you think they ought to be.
This viciousness on you part is your “issue”. Your “hate”. Your Christophobia or Theophobia. Your problem.
And Tootles?
In an endeavor to help relieve your sexual frustration, I have just one word for you . . .
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Oooo.
All that just for lil’ ol’ me, ya right-wing theocrat!
I must have really gotten under your skin, Tootles.
But since you’re allegedly a Christian?
Forgive me.
As to inhumane? Yeah, I’m going to laugh at the too considering the now literally thousands of posts in defense of the rights of others which people like you would so readily trample in the name of your “God” and his invisible penis. But seriously? You do need to get laid. Visible, invisible, whatever. And I only say that because I care.
Buck:
LOL
Unfortunately, the neocons have their dirty-rotten filthy claws into Sarah. I’m afraid she has been absorbed by the Borg and is lost.
Blouise,
you posted”
“Buddha,
When I tell you of my suspicions, they are based on posts like the following:
“Tootie
1, February 16, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Buddha:
You could breed with Stam. The off-scouring of it wouldn’t be human. Then a human could breed with it and not be breeding with a relative.
Gosh. Problem solved.”
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There is a baseness to that kind of thinking in the first place … to actually write it sinks beneath the low point. We saw it in the incarnation of the “Mercenaries” and the “Prison Boys” last summer/fall. And it was very evident in Tautology’s script … especially when he was addressing you. In essence, it is a pattern I detect and it happens often enough to bolster my suspicions. It is an ugly mind that concocts such thoughts and an even uglier hand that commits them to “paper”.”
Tootie responds:
Blouise:
You are not so understanding as you think.
Or perhaps you weren’t following along. I could grant you that. Because if you were following along you failed to condemn Stam or Buddha for their vicious attacks on me and ignored their “ugly minds”. Of course, you have appointed yourself fit to judge that.
Maybe the topic is too complicated for you. So I’ll just give you the benefit of the doubt that you don’t know what the tit for tat has been on this thread between these individuals and myself.
Stam wanted to pretend that I or the Bible hypocritically approved of incest or condoned it in some sort of deviant or immoral way and thus I or the Bible was as bad as I portrayed the Koran or Islam to be.
I meant to suggest that if there are only two people on earth having children, then their children, once becoming adults, HAVE to marry each other (or have sex with each other at least one time, presuming they are not having sex with the parents!).
And Stam may be embarrassed or confused by this but if this actually happened in reality in some remote part of the world, it would be a logical development for perpetuating the human species. And, presumably, this HAD to happen at some remote point in the development of the humane race.
I wasn’t even talking about incest in the first place. But Stam had utterly failed to make any educated or intelligent point regarding what he fully intended on discussing without permission from you or I, and when he failed to do that, he swerved to the subject of incest apparently thinking he had really got me on that one. You cannot blame me that Stam wanted to talk about this and talk about it robustly.
Clearly, Stam, unable to think scientifically, logically, or rationally about this issue of the first humans, was not able to offer a reasonable alternative to the biblical viewpoint and tell me how the first two humans created several generations of new humans without intermarriage in the beginning. At least the Old Testament has an explanation for it and I doubt it is much different from what the best geneticists in the world have discovered to be true, or likely true.
About the only alternative Stam has to how the earliest humans created a large “herd” or “flock” of humans is that they must interbreed with animals from another species, or I suppose monkey type critters. That doesn’t make sense and that is what I was making fun of, because that appears to be where Stam’s logic leads us. And I made fun of it because he wanted to associate ME with some evil concepts as if I promoted them. Stam deserved it.
Which leads us directly to Buddha who, unable to contain his or her “hatred” of me, naturally, butt into the conversation with this vile comment:
“Buddha Is Laughing 1, February 16, 2011 at 4:27 pm
Someone is upset they can’t find an invisible penis for themselves.”
This was in reference to me and the “invisible” God I worship.
It’s okay that you don’t mind that comment and it let pass by. You can gloss over Buddha’s disgusting and deep-seated thoughts typed out before the whole world and focus only on my alleged ones. It exposes your failings. And I understand. I don’t expect you to be decent. So I’m not disappointed. I only mention it to speak truth to power.
I never expect liberals to be decent. Liberals have advocated the murder of 50 million innocent unborn, and so I never expect humanity from them. I’m of an “ugly mind” for mere words, having never laid a hand to harm others, but leftists are never ugly minded for 50 million missing persons they volunteered in union and political might to obliterate from off the face of the earth! This is how the left really thinks. They think thoughts are worse than deeds.
You can always be fair.
Even evil people can be fair, sometimes. My comment about Stam and Buddha breeding (based on Buddha’s willingness to butt in with vile comments about the invisible “penis” and Stam’s pretending interbreeding is not the logical scientific explanation for the beginning of the human race) is as tough on them as they are on me. And it was a logical point to boot. And it is little different than Mr Turley pointing out how law professors use each other in making points in class. And Buddha, butting in as he or she did, asked to be made a point of.
My example, using the two people who are viciously attacking on this thread and everywhere else, and who thus deserve getting any comeuppance in my commentary, happens to be in a sense what would have to happen for Stam’s viewpoint of the human race to propagate and survive: Stam (the human) would have to breed with Buddha (the inhumane) one in order for there to exist a line of humans who were not 100 percent related by species who could then bred with others who were not related to them. Or, to not make it personal, a human has to breed with a non-human according to Stam’s default theory to work. When I said “problem solved” it was as a rough-edged snark suggesting that I discovered or figured out the biological conundrum that Stam seems still to be confused about and has no scientific answer for.
It seemed to fit perfectly. LOL
Buddha conveniently supplied the needed “other” that might be necessary for Stam’s default theory or some similar theory I have no knowledge of. And it (Buddha’s comment) was unfortunately convenient remark especially because, though obscene, it was sexual in nature. And I brought up the issue of sex and Islam because one cannot talk about Islam and the Muslim mind and ethics (and ignore their sexual corruption) and still claim to be an educated person.
Buddha, especially, became the butt of the absurdity because Buddha butt in, and butt in just in time with an indecent comment that allowed me to illustrate my point about there being no other people for humans to breed with BUT their relatives. Which Stam tried to portray as something evil in particular, of my faith.
If you would like me to consider Buddha to be humane, he or she is going to have to behave humanely. This is not a difficult concept. And if you don’t like it that I consider Buddha inhumane, perhaps you could prove otherwise. Good luck with that and don’t hold your breath.
Buddha, from what I have experienced, is the least humane individual I’ve ever “met”. Certainly the least humane of any I’ve met on the internet. Though, I will agree (with myself I suppose) that much of truth is lost in translation. The written word is woefully inadequate to express our true feelings. Much can be misconstrued because of the inability of words to be as precise as we need them to be. And much is lost because of the skill, or lack thereof, of the persons using them. Or because of the intellectual inability of the users. Which, you all remind me regularly, is my problem.
But what is you problem? What is your excuse for your ugly mind?
Still, no one short of anyone that has wanted to destroy me, has ever treated me so badly in my whole life. Buddha just doesn’t LOOK to be humane from where I stand. But the truth is, only humans can type, and make sentences, and have thoughts, and so Buddha has to be the result of two humans coming together and being (however remotely) related to each other (as we all are). Buddha is fully human but quite inhumane and was thus the perfect example to illustrate my point.
And I don’t know what Mercenaries and Prison Boys means.
Back on topic-
If you think we got bad intelligence information from “Curveball”, you should see the stuff we got from his brother, “Lying Sack of Shit”.
Tootie
Congratulations on another bravura performance. They never fail to fall for the bait, do they? I think you’re wasting your talents here, you should head for Tea Party headquarters – wherever that is – or, failing that, Ms. Palin’s political headquarters. Do you live anywhere near Iowa?
Blouise:
“No … he just didn’t think the cop was polite enough in explaining the ticket. He was talking about how government needs to be polite when it is dealing with the public … he’d broken the law and the cop didn’t kiss his behind enough … I didn’t realize cops were supposed to kiss up to people who break the law … silly me. I guess telling the group the cop was an idiot was Kasich’s way of employing a polite manner.”
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Meaning, he was probably a dick to the cop (“But! Don’t you know who I am??”) and since Kasich is big man on campus now, civil servants are supposed to bow to his assholiness regardless of the fact that he broke the law. So his response to being treated so horridly was to dig down further into the sandbox. Got it.
Do as I say, not as I do …
Stamford Liberal
1, February 17, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Blouise:
“Speaking of which, have you all seen the video of Ohio’s Governor Kasich telling a crowd about the “idiot” policeman who gave him a ticket. He’s serious … called the guy an idiot at least twice … I wonder if he paid the ticket.”
Groannnnnn … no, but let me guess, the cop was picking on him because he’s Republican? I mean, we know how cops pick on the Republicans. It’s shameful what they must indure …
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No … he just didn’t think the cop was polite enough in explaining the ticket. He was talking about how government needs to be polite when it is dealing with the public … he’d broken the law and the cop didn’t kiss his behind enough … I didn’t realize cops were supposed to kiss up to people who break the law … silly me. I guess telling the group the cop was an idiot was Kasich’s way of employing a polite manner.
HenMan,
I’m sure he’d love to bust a bunch of teacher’s heads … I meant it when I called these guys flesh-eaters. Unions are a huge thorn in republican’s sides because they are organized and they fight back. Republicans are bullies … they don’t like groups that fight back.
Walker and Kasich are two of the “in training” for 2016 presidential group and they are, as you indicated above, slick as shit.
Swarthmore Mom, Blouise, et.al.-
Our new Wisconsin Republican Governor is no tea partier. He is as Establishment Republian as they come. Strictly Heritage Foundation out of American Enterprise Institute. Of course he pandered to the folks in the three-cornered hats, but he fears them as much as the other Establishment Republicans do. This election was extraordinary in that both candidates were from Milwaukee. Neither party wants a Milwaukeean to run for Gov. because, although the rest of the state loves Sudsville, they don’t want any of their state taxes going there. Tom Barrett(D) (Mayor of Milwaukee and former U.S. Congressman) was mostly unknown in the rest of Wis. Scott Walker(R)(Milw. County Executive) was better known around Wis. because of his annual scam in which he and a group of Rep. supporters toured Wis. on Harley-Davidson motorcycles ostensibly to promote Milw. County tourism, but in reality to promote Scott Walker’s future bid for Governor. This guy’s a real cutie. As County Exec. he played the same charade every year. When the County board submitted it’s budget every year, Walker vetoed it. The County Board then immediately overrode the veto so that Milw. County could continue to function. Then every 4 years Walker ran campaign ads that said he didn’t raise property taxes and vetoed the reckless spending of the County Board. It worked like a charm.
In his press conference on what amounts to breaking up the teachers’ unions, one of the things he said was that he is in touch with the Wisconsin National Guard- do you think that might be a threat? He didn’t say anything about the police and firefighters’ unions- they supported his run for Governor. And he may need them to bust heads. Once the teachers unions are destroyed, he can then turn on the police and firefighters’ unions. And trust me, he will.
“Fitzgerald said at some point, if needed, Republicans will use the State Patrol to round up Democrats to bring them to the floor.”
Didn’t DeLay do the same thing in Texas back in the day?
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/source-wis-dem-state-senators-walk-out-blocking-budget-quorum.php?ref=fpi
Blouise:
“Speaking of which, have you all seen the video of Ohio’s Governor Kasich telling a crowd about the “idiot” policeman who gave him a ticket. He’s serious … called the guy an idiot at least twice … I wonder if he paid the ticket.”
Groannnnnn … no, but let me guess, the cop was picking on him because he’s Republican? I mean, we know how cops pick on the Republicans. It’s shameful what they must indure …
Swarthmore mom
1, February 17, 2011 at 11:25 am
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/paul-ryan-on-wisconsin-protests-its-like-cairo-has-moved-to-madison-video.php An estimated crowd of 30,000 is protesting union busting tactics of Wisconsin’s newly elected republican tea party governor. Too bad they could not see what the tea party was about before the election.
Stamford Liberal
1, February 17, 2011 at 11:28 am
“Too bad they could not see what the tea party was about before the election.”
Agreed. It’s not as if the teabaggers didn’t make their disdain for unions well known prior to the election.
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It was there for all to see …
“The provision also would mean most people who work for the government at any level — teachers, computer technicians, spokesmen, accountants — would no longer be able to collectively negotiate the length of shifts, vacations, sick days and discipline processes, among other things.”
http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20110217/APC0101/102170550/Democrats-pan-Wisconsin-Governor-Scott-Walker-s-union-plan
Union busting is an age-old Republican standard … teabaggers were only an independent movement under “Paul” at which point in time they were proud to be called teabaggers. This latewt bunch are nothing more than regurgitated Republicans following the same ol’ Republican playbook. Interestingly enough, this latest attempt to union-bust did not include the Fire and Police Unions which are incredibly strong …. Walker’s just going after teachers and garbage men etc. The demonstrators are Democrats.
Speaking of which, have you all seen the video of Ohio’s Governor Kasich telling a crowd about the “idiot” policeman who gave him a ticket. He’s serious … called the guy an idiot at least twice … I wonder if he paid the ticket.
“Too bad they could not see what the tea party was about before the election.”
Agreed. It’s not as if the teabaggers didn’t make their disdain for unions well known prior to the election.
This is great news. People should fight back against injustice. Too bad people didn’t see who Obama really was before he was elected, but at least the people of Wisconsin are awake and willing to fight back!
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/paul-ryan-on-wisconsin-protests-its-like-cairo-has-moved-to-madison-video.php An estimated crowd of 30,000 is protesting union busting tactics of Wisconsin’s newly elected republican tea party governor. Too bad they could not see what the tea party was about before the election.
Jill:
we will see how peacefull it ends up being. But I do agree that our government is out of control and stealing from us.
KC
I just call it totalitarianism. The world has never seen an actual capitalist or socialist system–meaning a system that remains true to the ideals of either. Neither label would fit the current system we live under. This is a corrupt cleptocracy which is dangerous to our own people, other people of the world and the entire ecosystem. The peaceful revolution in Egypt is an inspiration in confronting a completely corrupt, extremely dangerous govt.