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BERLIN — The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein’s suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush administration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his claims during the run-up to the war in Iraq.

Five senior officials from Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, said in interviews with The Times that they warned U.S. intelligence authorities that the source, an Iraqi defector code-named Curveball, never claimed to produce germ weapons and never saw anyone else do so.

According to the Germans, President Bush mischaracterized Curveball’s information when he warned before the war that Iraq had at least seven mobile factories brewing biological poisons. Then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell also misstated Curveball’s accounts in his prewar presentation to the United Nations on Feb. 5, 2003, the Germans said.

Curveball’s German handlers for the last six years said his information was often vague, mostly secondhand and impossible to confirm.

“This was not substantial evidence,” said a senior German intelligence official. “We made clear we could not verify the things he said.”

The German authorities, speaking about the case for the first time, also said that their informant suffered from emotional and mental problems. “He is not a stable, psychologically stable guy,” said a BND official who supervised the case. “He is not a completely normal person,” agreed a BND analyst.
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D’ya wonder if “Mastermind” Emmanuel has seen these poll results?

Seventy percent of people surveyed said that criticism of the war by Democratic senators hurts troop morale — with 44% saying morale is hurt “a lot,” according to a poll taken by…

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Ahhh, yes, criticism helps the troops morale. Yep! Sure does! Ohhhhh, yeah!

Those 21% would be the Moonbat Wing, right? Yeesh!

I wrote this (Blind Rage Gets In The Way Of Clear Thinking) on my personal blog a while ago.
It saddens me to see people who should stand up for our country choose not to, simply because they hate President Bush and think it is more important for P…

Looks like Cheney was right.

I’m assuming because only 1% of representatives voted for in favor of pulling out immediately out of Iraq.

Shows how extreme the base (rank and files) are which is scary because the leadership of the Democrat party are already scary.

Like a great many Libs, you mistake your fringe politics for being the mainstream base. People like you are driving people out of the Democrat party and ensuring not only minority status, but that you’ll never win an election again.

Being an ostrich is not being enlightened or smart. Your peace is to surrender to evil.