Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed “Curveball” by German and American intelligence officials, now admits he made up tales of mobile biological weapons trucks and clandestine weapons factories in Iraq, information that was used by the Bush White House to press the case for war. He also says he’d do it again.
“Maybe I was right, maybe I was not right,” Janabi told The Guardian. “They gave me this chance. I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime. I and my sons are proud of that and we are proud that we were the reason to give Iraq the margin of democracy.”
And if it turns out conservatives are deliberately lying about bond vigilantes now, I’m sure when they get caught, they’ll say they’d do it again, because it warded off soshulism, the same way Irving Kristol had no shame about lying about supply side economics.
Not that I should lump this “Curveball” guy in with those sociopaths. He wanted his government overthrown and was willing to dupe Americans into doing it, and at least he didn’t do it on Charlie Rose, on David Bradley’s and Pinch Sulzberger’s dime.