New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

Alex, Spring, Texas — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:53:44 GMT

It was absolutely clear from the very beginning, well before the actual beginning of the Iraq war that all "motivations" to invade Iraq were faked. The CIA was definitely coerced and these Chelabis were encouraged to tell necessary scary tall tales. And American people were subjected to very intensive brain wshing. Everybody who thoght for hi(her)self understood that this war had nothing to do with Saddam, terrorism, mass destraction weapons, or al-Qaeda (that had no men in Iraq!). The major purpose was the Middle East oil! So the Bush administration intentionally lied to Ameican people fiersely manipulating public opinion. Then it began this war in an absolutely illiterate, incompetent, often purely stupid way.
What is the result:
1. Increased antiamericanism in Iraq and around the world;
2. Al Qaeda received a new good basis in Iraq for all forseeable future;
3. Several thousand Americans dead and many tens of thousand mutilated;
4. Situation in Iraq will continue for generation.
And so on and on.

It is high time to tell the truth, the full truth and seriously analyse the situation without new lies and propaganda and decide what to do best.

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

NeedlessLosses, Stony Brook, NY — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:39:27 GMT

Bush was right in rejecting laws preventing waterboarding. We may need waterboarding or other acceptable CIA tactics to get the truth out of this administration.

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

Tracker Bill Yonah Mtn GA — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:05:58 GMT

Sometime in the future, the high resolution satellite imagery of Iraq, taken between 1991 to 2002 will become public domain. Although those that evaluated these images knew that there were no facilities for enriching uranium within the borders of Iraq, that Iraq had no IBCMs, no long range bombers or submarines to deliver a nuclear weapon, even if one was bought on the black market, we may never know why this information was not passed on to the upper levels of “management”. It probably was, but the response, no doubt was “ Don’t confuse me with facts my mind is made up.”

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

ken, Ann Arbor Michigan — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:08:22 GMT

Too much too late. This book should have been published in 2001 but the media was too busy helping the Bush Administration build the case to go to war in Iraq.

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

Deb, Denver CO — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:08:47 GMT

Is this any different than the "lies" that were given to our stupid politicians to bring us to the aid of Kuwait? While the rich sheiks partied in other countries, American soldiers were going to war with Saddam. If we were less dependent on foreign oil, I's say let the Middle East implode -- not our problem. They made their beds, lie in it!

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

GREG SIMPSON,CLEARWATER,FL. — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:39:05 GMT

THIS IS WONDERFULL NEWS,UNFORTUNATLEY MANY IN THE CIA, WERE TELLING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION THE SAME THING.THEY WERE NOT ABOUT TO LISTEN.ITS HARD TO TAKE ADVICE WHEN YOURE MIND IS ALREADY MADE UP.

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

Gary, Midland, Tx — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:57:53 GMT

When will we realize that there are so many intracacies in the relationships between many of the players in the Middle East, that we probably will never understand all of them. Nothing is ever going to be exactly as it was put forward at face value. Unless we have someone who has lived there for most of their at leats 60 years, we will not ever understand all of the nuances of the deals that are made, the grudges that are held, or exactly what someone means, when they say, (This is what I mean). To be honest, we probably need someone who has lived there for the last 2000 or so years.

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

Jeff, Houston, TX — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:29:49 GMT

NBC, CBS and ABC all have one thing in common. They believe they and their employees should be respected. If Walter Cronkite were speaking - there might be some credibility.

I have never heard of Aram Roston. Why would you think that NBC News Investigative Producer Aram Roston would be someone to trust? Especially considering that even this article presents only speculation on the key points. Has your organization forgotten - facts?

Why don't you'll just go off and do something important like, 1) study the Fair Tax and come up with the numbers that say it will work, 2) or, come up with the numbers that say if you don't get these numbers (whatever they are) that the Fair Tax definition needs to improve, 3) come up with the numbers that says we are foolish not to commit to a massive change to solar power, 4) come up with the numbers that say the subsidies to the Rural Electrification whatever is costing us money by delaying the move BACK to solar.

Come up with something useful. All I read is cry me a river. You're as bad as the do-nothing politicians in Washington.

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

kim, cleveland, ohio — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:38:24 GMT

They weren't coached to just embellish, they lied. Period. It would not have made a difference anyway because Bush was going to invade probably long before Chalabi came into the picture. Chalabi just became a name for the administration to use for those who were questioning the illegality of the invasion. Now we find out his information was dubious at best. Like many American's didn't know that he was a liar to begin with. He is a criminal. Tried in absentia in Jordan was it, for fraud. Only the criminals in this administration would use another criminal as their source for bogus intel.

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

Don Purdy, Rutherford, NJ — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:27:56 GMT

How does the defection (to Syria, of all places), return to Iraq, and execution of Saddam Hussein's sons-in-law tie in to all this??? (Reportedly, virtually every intelligence service in the world interviewed them in Syria about the Iraqi WMD program. Reportedly, the common comment coming out of the interview was on the order of, "It's worse than we thought!") If the WMD program had been shut down, as seems to be the case, then what was THIS all about?????

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

Richard B. Smith, Hessel MIchigan — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:04:20 GMT

Hi... It just dosent matter if Chalabi is on the level or not... The BUsh administration had a pre-concieved plan in place and if Chalabi did not justify it they would have had someone else do that!...

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

Mark Eichenlaub, Chicago, IL — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:01:48 GMT

Funny you mention this because the new report by the Institute for Defense Analysis lays out a very clear set of examples of Saddam Hussein's cooperation with and support for SIX different al Qaeda offshoots as well as a breathtakingly capable and willing terror force controlled by his intelligence services.

I'll have a post up today about this at www.regimeofterror.com.

Why is it that you guys aren't reporting this huge story?

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

concerned — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:49:43 GMT

money, oil & power. yes people lied. i don't believe it would have taken much anyway. I voted for Bush but questioned the reasoning for invading Iraq. Notice the problems just to the south in Mexico? and we do nothing, why?
What i don't understand is why our goverment won't listen to our own military leaders? So far they seem to have our best interest in mind.
If all it takes is a few people to state that some country has WMD's to wage a war then we as a country are at fault. Notice we are not the world leader, we act as a world bully, and now we are taking the same path with Iran.
This needs to stop and stop now before we pick a fight we will truely regret based off lies. Read the constitution, this is directly a contrast of what this country was founded.

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

John, US of A — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:57:25 GMT

The US invented, designed, prototyped, developed and built technology. When the Chinese or whoever else seeals this technology, nothing is or can be done about it. You would think that when our US goods are stolen, we would recognize that a crime has been committed and hold people responsible, as when real goods are stolen. WE CAN NOT LET THIS HAPPEN ANY LONGER. TECHNICAL PIRACY IS A CRIME WHICH ROBS ALL AMERICANS, HURTS THE ECONOMY, AND SUCKS THE TREASURES OF OUR GREAT NATION INTO THE COFFERS OF THE WORLDS NEW CRIME ENTERPRISES. Each American has invested big money into the technical advances made in TIHS COUNTRY, only to have those valuable ideas taken to some other place where the stolen value is created by manufacturing and mining in those foreign places. If we don't concentrate on bringn back manufacturing jobs, allow for the mining of soverign materials, and local farming, we are never going to create wealth for ourselves, and will forever be locked into moving our foreign masters value around. Stop hating our homeland. Put America first. If those words offend you, you don't deserve the opportunities that exist in our great land as a result of the sacrifices our fathers made for us.

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

Patrick O'Neil — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:36:19 GMT

Mr. Roston seems to be under the mistaken impression that knowing informtion was false would have made a diffrence to George Bush.

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

Matt, New Jersey — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:42:00 GMT

I'm assuming by now that we all realized they " embellished " the truth. I don't think we need a book to rectify this either maybe we just need to pay attention to who we give the power to and how gulable we've become.

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

Ed from Montana — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:24:52 GMT

This problem was caused in part by the Clinton administration's cuts in military and CIA intell funding. Even as they cut travel and funding levels of the Veterans Administration. This kind of thinking as well as turning their eye away from what was told to the congress by Oliver North about his fear of Osama Bin Laden. Led this path to War under false information.

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

SRK, Omaha, NE — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:50:45 GMT

As a person who lived in Iraq at one time, who is familiar with the family, I am still amazed how the US administration trusted a member of a family regarded by many in Iraq as crooks.

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

Alex — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:11:27 GMT

One more thing: When it was decided to invade Iraq Bush administration together with mass media became a powerful totalitarian-type propaganda machine and America became a kind of a TOTALITARIAN DEMOCRACY. The history of the Iraq war demonstrate that we must resist brain-washing, keep our brains clean, and properly defend our democracy!!!

Alex, Spring, Texas (March 18, 2008 11:05 pm)

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

Delta Trooper, Fayetteville NC — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:07:50 GMT

Don't be surprised if that Iranian General suddenly dissapears. If Chalabi is proved to be an Iranian agent [which all our guys think] he will have an unfortunate accident. Today the hitter who killed Khoei was dealt with. Look for more of the same. Its about f-ing time too.

New book: Were Iraqi defectors coached to embellish?

beho — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:25:39 GMT

chalabi has lied, no question, but what about usa not to check it out?do we need one more to go in another war?