US relied on 'drunken liar' to justify war

An alcoholic cousin of an aide to Ahmed Chalabi has emerged as the key source in the US rationale for going to war in Iraq.

According to a US presidential commission looking into pre-war intelligence failures, the basis for pivotal intelligence on Iraq's alleged biological weapons programmes and fleet of mobile labs was a spy described as 'crazy' by his intelligence handlers and a 'congenital liar' by his friends. [Guardian]

"We didn't lie. We were all fooled by this drunken bum!"

"The President was fooled by this drunken bum!"

"The Vice President was fooled by this drunken bum!"

"The guy looking at photos of balloon inflators and claiming they were mobile biological laboratories was fooled by this drunken bum!"

"The CIA was fooled by this drunken bum!"

"The FBI was fooled by this drunken bum!"

"The entire United States Congress was fooled by this drunken bum!"

"ABC was fooled by this drunken bum!"

"NBC was fooled by this drunken bum!"

"CBS was fooled by this drunken bum!"

"FOX was fooled by this drunken bum!"

"CNN was fooled by this drunken bum!"

"Newspapers were fooled by this drunken bum!"

"Clear Channel was fooled by this drunken bum!"

"The weapons inspection teams who scoured Iraq over and over and over and over without finding anything were fooled by this drunken bum!"

"The boys who made the fake Osama video tapes were fooled by this drunken bum!"

"The Mossad agents arrested while cheering the collapse of the World Trade Towers were fooled by this drunken bum!"

"Yessirrebob we were all fooled by this drunken bum. It's all his fault. Honest. Really. None of us did anything wrong."