Remember "Curveball"? The Iraqi defector who claimed to have evidence that Saddam was acquiring WMDs, evidence that formed a major part of George W. Bush's case for going to war:
Curveball was the chief source of inaccurate prewar U.S. accusations that Baghdad had biological weapons, a commission appointed by Bush reported this year. The commission did not interview Curveball, who still insists his story was true, or the German officials who handled his case. ...
At the Central Intelligence Agency, officials embraced Curveball's account even though they could not confirm it or interview him until a year after the invasion. LA Times 20 Nov 2005
Well, Curveball now admits he made it all up:
Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball by German and American intelligence officials who dealt with his claims, has told the Guardian that he fabricated tales of mobile bioweapons trucks and clandestine factories in an attempt to bring down the Saddam Hussein regime, from which he had fled in 1995. UK Guardin (today)
Why did he do it?
"I had a problem with the Saddam regime," he said. "I wanted to get rid of him and now I had this chance."
Curveball - Janabi - joins a long list of Middle Eastern actors, from Ahmed Chalabi to Iranian interests to (possibly) Israel, who lied, twisted and manipulated the Bush administration into a war with Iraq that was unnecessary, that distracted us from the real war against our terrorist enemies, that cost us HUGE amounts of lives and treasure, that could still bankrupt the country, that led us to torture people so they would tell us what we wanted to hear, that corrupted our sacred honor.... The list goes on.
And he's proud of it.