More Revison of History

[wkmac]

In his new memoirs titled "Known and Unknown", Rumsfeld also admitted that the decision to wage war on Iraq may have been wrong, but blamed the heavy bloodshed in Iraq on "too many hands on the steering wheel."

In his book, Rumsfeld recalled one of his TV interviews, during which he was asked about WMD. He acknowledged that he made a mistake then.

Rumsfeld Admits Lied on Iraq WMD

As US secretary of state, Colin Powell gathered his notes in front of the United Nations security council, the man watching — Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, known to the west's intelligence services as "Curveball" — had more than an inkling of what was to come. He was, after all, Powell's main source, a man his German handlers had feted as a new "Deep throat" — an agent so pivotal that he could bring down a government.
As Curveball watched Powell make the US case to invade Iraq, he was hiding an admission that he has not made until now: that nearly every word he had told his interrogators from Germany's secret service, the BND, was a lie.
Everything he had said about the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's biological weapons programme was a flight of fantasy - one that, he now claims was aimed at ousting the Iraqi dictator. Janabi,

Curveball: How US was duped by Iraqi fantasist looking to topple Saddam

BTW: What some distainfully call "revisonism" in truth is sometimes nothing more than "correcting the record!"

 

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Rumsfeld Admits Lied on Iraq WMD



Curveball: How US was duped by Iraqi fantasist looking to topple Saddam

BTW: What some distainfully call "revisonism" in truth is sometimes nothing more than "correcting the record!"

I'm sure you are correct, that sometimes it is nothing more than "correcting the record", however sometimes it is nothing more than "revisionism". Punt.