[cripplecreek]

I'll worry about it when the Germans decide what they're going to do about it. I don't think I'll be losing much sleep over it.

[digger48]

Hasn't the Curveball story been played already? Not this particular one, but hasn't it?

[vbmoneyspender]

Yep, the thousands of missiles that Hussein fired at our pilots prior to our side going to war against Hussein were mere figments of our imagination.

[PeterPrinciple]

BS - He had WMD and could not tell us how he disposed of them so the logical assumption is he still had them. The delay in congress is what messed things up.

[Clara Lou]

Let's see...the invasion was when??? And now they come forward with this hot new information??? I think the UN needs to investigate these Germans and find out why they didn't speak up much earlier if they had this information. [This is a job that the UN can bungle without any ill effects.]

[RVN Airplane Driver]

Hey Herm.....always error on the side of caution. There are a lot more Germans speaking English than Brits or Americans speaking German....and that's after thousands upon thousands of occupiers have been in Deautschland over the years.

[operation clinton cleanup]

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.

Nuts N' Sluts defense? Why did the use him for 6 years?

[thoughtomator]

``He is not a stable, psychologically stable guy,'' ... ``He is not a completely normal person,''

``We made clear we could not verify the things he said.''

Sounds like they're talking about Saddam himself.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Oh, No! Does that mean the Germans will be withdrawing their troops from Iraq immediately? We're dooooomed! /sarcasm

[jimbo123]

Iraq may have nuclear weapons in three years, says Germany

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=10537

[RedBeaconNY]

coming from the leader of warmongering western countries? meh.

[DTogo]

What data did Hitler use to invade most of Europe and surrounding countries?

[ml1954]

The LA Times is trying to make a splash with very old news.

Wouldn't it have been nice to be able to critique FDR's decisions on the front page of widely read newspapers 3 years after the fact. Why were the Philippines left so poorly defended? And wasn't it obvious that after you cut Japan's oil off they would attack us? And was it really necessary to invade Okinawa, North Africa, Sicily, and Italy? Etc, etc.

The DIMs are shameless.

[zarf]

Nice timing on this one Krauts. LOL!

Who in the CIA egged this one on?

[vigilence]

There were multitudes of reasons to depose Saddam but he MSM and Dims only want to focus on WMD. Typical. But this goes beyond that. CIA, at war with the Bush administration, is now calling on foreign agencies to try to make him look bad. That place can't get cleaned out fast enough to suit me.

[sure_fine]

hell, the german leaders have been feeling 'left' out of the media loop lately

[Chi-townChief]

What data did the Germans use to justify talking Oil for Food kickbacks from Saddam?

[holden]

Thinking as a contrarian, "What if they're on to something, and right?"

What if the ClintonCIA--read: the likes of Valerie Flame--did feel compelled to exaggerate? And of course, in the transition to the Bush Administration, they conveniently forgot to re-do the books, so as not to expose themselves. Besides, who likes extra work? Certainly not a Clinton hold-over!

Now that all this focus has gone toward bad intell, could it be the CIA has purposely had Wilson go over the top, and thrown the monkey on the back of the administration, both serving their "former master" while also covering up their half-truths to allow Kurintong his justification for Monica missiles?

Tenet was probably re-using that "slam-dunk" line he got from Bubba hisseff.

HF

[M Kehoe]

Germans Say U.S. Used Bad Data to Justify Iraq Invasion

Here, let me try...

Germans Say Iraqi Oil contracts Justify No Invasion.

There, that's better.

5.56mm

[coffee260]

I remember reading something about curveball some time after 911. I think this information has been out for a while.