Remember Curveball?
Yeah, that Curveball. The alcoholic Iraqi defector who swore there were mobile biological weapons labs in Iraq. The one whose faulty information was the centerpiece of Colin Powell’s presentation on Iraq to the United Nations in 2003. ABC News has gotten its hands on the first known photo of him. And I can’t help but ...
Yeah, that Curveball. The alcoholic Iraqi defector who swore there were mobile biological weapons labs in Iraq. The one whose faulty information was the centerpiece of Colin Powell's presentation on Iraq to the United Nations in 2003. ABC News has gotten its hands on the first known photo of him.
Yeah, that Curveball. The alcoholic Iraqi defector who swore there were mobile biological weapons labs in Iraq. The one whose faulty information was the centerpiece of Colin Powell’s presentation on Iraq to the United Nations in 2003. ABC News has gotten its hands on the first known photo of him.
And I can’t help but think: Curveball and Bob from La Bamba, the movie I spent most of 1987 watching, separated at birth?
Curveball |
Bob from La Bamba |
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