Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi is one of the most important people in the 20st Century, but most people only know him by his CIA codename: "Curveball." Mr. Janabi was a CIA informant whose information helped lead the nation to invade Iraq and begin one of the costliest wars in US history. Curveball makes his first public appearance in a two-part BBC documentary entitled "Modern Spies." The documentary presents a complicated character aware of the implications of his actions but unwavering in his reasoning. Michael Rudin, who produced the series, explains what it was like to speak to the man who helped bring two nations to war.
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The second Bush Administration tried to bring about the decline of the United States as a symbol of freedom. Nothing Bush did was favorable to our nation as a whole. The Neo-con actions point to an attempt to set conditions back to the 1920s: no middle-class, robber-barons and magnates, 8th Grade public education, inaccessible healthcare, poor houses, zero conservation, households with unsustainable number of children, privitization of basic public services and law enforcement, Stasi-like security measures, pollution, workers' safety, and the list goes on.
So if "Curveball" ball lied than it is a big lie to say Bush lied?
The blame Bush argument is an overused distraction from the endless Obama lies which will lead to the decline of the United States in the 21st Century which is an even bigger deal for the world than the Iraq War.
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