Admitting That He Lied
In February 2011, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi admitted for the first time that he lied about his story regarding Iraq's secret biological weapons program. He also admitted to being shocked that his false story was used as a justification for the Iraq War but proud that the fabrications helped topple Saddam Hussein.
According to the Danish "The man who lied the world into war" film(2010/2011 update, basing on sources) after finding him by document makers, and their questions to chief of his new home country security and spy services he lost his "work"(in the company, by document makers, found and described as a cover with his position of "marketing specialist") and "salary with flat". Then when he had to get back to the social one-room flat with social security help-salary, he phoned documentary staff proposing interview for the 40 000 European currency(before UK newspaper article). Also he showed papers, that in his words, was clearly showing contract between him and this "cover company" for the 15 years, starting in the 1999/2000 with the month salary of 3000 European currency(average salary in Europe is about 75000$, which make it generally under, however average was much lower in the beginning of the 2000s and for not qualified specialist, working without experience was quite big, especially compared to usual immigrant jobs and salaries)
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Famous quotes containing the words admitting that he, admitting that, admitting and/or lied:
“For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more wealth as a man would about admitting that he had accepted an invitation just for the sake of the food. This is one of humanity’s most profound imbecilities, as perhaps the only justification for asking one’s fellowmen to endure the horrors of war would be the knowledge that if they did not fight they would starve.”
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“Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more wealth as a man would about admitting that he had accepted an invitation just for the sake of the food. This is one of humanity’s most profound imbecilities, as perhaps the only justification for asking one’s fellowmen to endure the horrors of war would be the knowledge that if they did not fight they would starve.”
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“The difference between guilt and shame is very clear—in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.”
—Lewis B. Smedes, U.S. psychologist, educator. Shame and Grace: Healing the Shame We Don’t Deserve, ch. 2, Harper (1993)