World-News

By Jonathan Owen

Defector tells how US officials 'sexed up' his fictions to make the case for 2003 invasion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30953.htm



Thomas Friedman s ''Festival of Lies''

By Lawrence Davidson

There are lies aplenty when it comes to U.S. actions in the Middle East. However, they are not lies we tell to others but rather to ourselves. And from that, nothing good can come.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30956.htm



''Curveball'' Reiterates Confession About Iraq War Lies

''We went to war in Iraq on a lie. And that lie was your lie,'' the interviewer said to Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed ''Curveball.'' Al-Janabi replied simply: ''Yes.''

http://bit.ly/HEi8Wl



Manipulating Public Perceptions: The Toppling Of Saddam Hussein

By MICHAEL OMER-MAN

The dramatic scene of knocking down one of hundreds of statues of the dictator, turned out to be not much more than an opportune media event.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31023.htm


From Information Clearing House

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

Independent [UK]

04/01/12

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...

http://ind.pn/HKvqkQ


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Value of Tom Friedman and America s Imperial Decline
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/25-4



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=imperial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=decline
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tom+Friedman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Curveball
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jonathan+Owen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Omer-Man
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald


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