Curveball: Spies, Lies and the Man Behind Them: The Real Reason America Went to War in Iraq

Curveball: Spies, Lies and the Man Behind Them: The Real Reason America Went to War in Iraq

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‘Curveball’ was the codename given to the mysterious defector whose first-hand evidence on Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction proved vital in giving the Bush administration the excuse it needed to invade Iraq.The only problem – this ‘evidence’ was nothing more than a pack of lies.Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Drogin has written the definitive account of the most notorious intelligence fiasco in US history, revealing how squabbling, arrogance and incompetence within the various intelligence agencies allowed one man’s lies to spread higher and higher up the chain of authority, eventually reaching the White House itself.Breathlessly paced and shockingly revelatory, Curveball is an explosive true-life account of how honour and dishonesty amongst spies led to the UK and the US becoming embroiled in a catastrophic war.

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Weight 0.237 kg
Dimensions 2.7 × 11 × 17.8 cm
Format
language1
Pages

448
Publisher

Year Published

2008-5-1
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0091923042
About The Author

Bob Drogin is a national security correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. He has won or shared multiple journalism awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award and the George Polk Award. He has appeared on the BBC, CNN and many other media outlets. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife and two children.

Curveball clarifies a large number of points hitherto only dimly discerned which, if true, explain the biggest fiasco in the history of secret intelligence over 500 years. Even if only half of this is true, those who led us into the Iraq war on the basis of a tissue of lies should be impeached and indicted
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Curveball is the factual equivalent of Catch 22. It is impossible to read this book and then look at our world leaders without thinking , 'F*ck. Oh f*ck. Oh my God, oh f*ck.'

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