In the run-up to the war in Iraq, the Iraqi defector known as ‘Curveball’ was the source of much of the false information that was used to argue that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction. There were doubts from the beginning about Curveball’s veracity and plenty of reasons to doubt him but these were brushed aside in the drive to gin up support for the invasion. Curveball himself says that his German interrogators knew he was lying as early as 2000.

Now Curveball admits to having lied all along and justifies it by saying he wanted to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

Colin Powell says that he is seeking answers as to how it was that those lies resulted in his famous speech to the UN being full of lies too. This is typical Powell, an obsessed careerist, always unprincipled, always doing whatever his superiors tell him to, and then trying to repair his image.

Paul Craig Roberts expresses his shame and disgust with how the leadership of the US knowingly and willfully lied to their own people and the world, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.