Philosophy
This is nothing short of stunning.
So we went to war based on bad intelligence. A group of neo-conservatives cherry picked intel about the Iraqi program for weapons of mass destruction and used it to sell an unpopular war. The main informant was an agent named "Curveball." When the President of the United States said,
The LA Times tracked down Curveball who is in exile Germany...fleeing corruption charges in Iraq. "Curveball has flipped burgers at McDonald's and Burger King, washed dishes in a Chinese restaurant and baked pretzels in an all-night bakery."
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- Ummmm...this Seems Important
On Hardball last night, an interesting statement was made by David Schuster, a correspondent for MSNBC. He said, "INTELLIGENCE SOURCES SAY VALERIE WILSON WAS PART OF AN OPERATION THREE YEARS AGO TRACKING THE PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS MATERIAL INTO...
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The discussion of the tyrannical man is the focus of Book IX of as Socrates and his young friends analyze how the son of a democratic man evolves into a tyrant. This situation is one that, like all other anecdotes and stories told by these philosophers,...
- King "corn"
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- A Helping Hand In Education--american University Of Iraq
"Book Drive for Iraq: How you can do your bit to build democracy" by Christopher Hitchens June 30th, 2008 Slate It's quite common to read, usually from liberal opponents of the engagement in Iraq, that George W. Bush's administration hasn't...
Philosophy
Home of der Whopper
This is nothing short of stunning.
So we went to war based on bad intelligence. A group of neo-conservatives cherry picked intel about the Iraqi program for weapons of mass destruction and used it to sell an unpopular war. The main informant was an agent named "Curveball." When the President of the United States said,
we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several mobile biological weapons labs. These are designed to produce germ warfare agents, and can be moved from place to a place to evade inspectors. Saddam Hussein has not disclosed these facilities.it was Curveball who sold them on it through reports from German intelligence that the Germans said were not credible. Curveball's story was bought without ever having American intelligence agents actually talk to the man...if they had, they may have figured out what employees at Burger King quickly realized...
The LA Times tracked down Curveball who is in exile Germany...fleeing corruption charges in Iraq. "Curveball has flipped burgers at McDonald's and Burger King, washed dishes in a Chinese restaurant and baked pretzels in an all-night bakery."
In early 2002, a year before the war, he told co-workers at the Burger King that he spied for Iraqi intelligence and would report any fellow Iraqi worker who criticized Hussein's regime.So we were led into a war because our President and his administration were outfoxed by a man that couldn't fool teenagers working at Burger King.
They couldn't decide if he was dangerous or crazy.
"During breaks, he told stories about what a big man he was in Baghdad," said Hamza Hamad Rashid, who remembered an odd scene with the pudgy Alwan in his too-tight Burger King uniform praising Hussein in the home of der Whopper. "But he always lied. We never believed anything he said."
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- Bush The Democratic, Bush The Tyrannical
The discussion of the tyrannical man is the focus of Book IX of as Socrates and his young friends analyze how the son of a democratic man evolves into a tyrant. This situation is one that, like all other anecdotes and stories told by these philosophers,...
- King "corn"
This article from Chemical & Engineering News does make one wonder about the sustainability of having one primary food source in the complex food chain. If the "corn" link is broken as in severe drought or disease, it would have a devastating effect...
- A Helping Hand In Education--american University Of Iraq
"Book Drive for Iraq: How you can do your bit to build democracy" by Christopher Hitchens June 30th, 2008 Slate It's quite common to read, usually from liberal opponents of the engagement in Iraq, that George W. Bush's administration hasn't...