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Originally Posted by Azure
I thought the FBI agent said that Saddam made up the whole idea of having WMD....and the US fell for it?
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Saddam told the FBI agent that he wanted Iran to believe he had WMD for his own protection. I surmised this when we were discussing why Saddam played this game when the USA and the UN knew he didn't have them. The USAs best intelligence about WMD was provided by "Curveball". "But the Germans informed US intelligence that Curveball was a possible alcoholic "out of control" besides being described by his friends as a congenital liar. The guy was motivated to build a story so he could get asylum and I can only conclude that the only people who believed him were Bush and his cronies because they wanted war.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...836_wmd04.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(informant)