BAGHDAD WANTS $1 BILLION FOR U.S. DAMAGE TO CITY

"Iraq's capital wants the United States to apologize and pay $1 billion for the damage done to the city... by blast walls and Humvees... said Baghdad's infrastructure and aesthetics have been seriously damaged by the American military... Baghdad's neighborhoods have been sealed off by miles of concrete blast walls, transforming the city into a tangled maze that contributes to massive traffic jams... only 5 percent of the walls have been removed... The heavy blast walls have damaged sewer and water systems, pavement and parks... U.S. military Humvees, driven on street medians and through gardens, have also caused major damage... "
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110217/wl_nm/us_iraq_usa_damages

DEFECTOR ADMITS TO WMD LIES THAT STARTED WAR

"... As Curveball watched Powell make the US case to invade Iraq, he was hiding an admission that he has not made until now: that nearly every word he had told his interrogators from Germany's secret service, the BND, was a lie. Everything he had said about the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's biological weapons programme was a flight of fantasy - one that, he now claims was aimed at ousting the Iraqi dictator... Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi – codenamed Curveball by the CIA – explains why he lied about Saddam's chemical weapons capability:
Video at -- http://gu.com/p/2mqcb

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/15/curveball-iraqi-fantasist-cia-saddam
and
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110216/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_iraq_curveball