Scheer on ‘Curveball,’ Iraq’s Alleged WMD

Re “Bush Threw Us a ‘Curveball,’ ” Commentary, April 5: Robert Scheer gives us one more piece of evidence in a never-ending chain of incompetence and deceit.

How long will the American people sit by and watch while our democracy is stolen by those who hide behind their false morals and use God to justify their evil deeds? What’s missing, Mr. Scheer, is a call for impeachment.

Paul McFarlin

Granada Hills

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After years of bashing the CIA, I find it funny that Scheer now believes what the CIA’s supposedly independent inspector general says about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The CIA screwed up royally and is now in damage control to protect itself. The Clinton administration also believed that Iraq possessed WMD.

Maybe Scheer’s newfound love for the CIA is fueled by the fact that the CIA is saying to President Bush, “We told you that we doubted the informant ‘Curveball’ and the information he gave us.” The U.N. inspectors never had “extraordinary access” in Iraq, as Scheer claims.

Scheer will believe anyone who provides information that the president lied, because the CIA never lies, right Bob?

Mark Muckenthaler

Norco

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Scheer’s article is right on point. However, the ultimate insult is that the Bush administration expects us to simply accept its preposterous explanation for the entire fiasco, without further question or demand for accountability: “We were fooled by a lunatic drunkard (‘Curveball’ -- we can’t tell you his real name) associated with a convicted international felon (Ahmad Chalabi).”

If that doesn’t reflect the genuine contempt Bush has for the American people, I don’t know what does.

David J. Habib Jr.

Canoga Park