Los Angeles Times reporter Bob Drogin joins us this week at TPMCafe’s Table for One to blog about his new book, Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man who Caused a War.
Curveball is, of course, the now-notorious Iraqi defector whose tales of WMD formed part of the basis for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Or as Drogin writes in his first post:
He was a nobody, a schlub, a former taxi driver who told a few lies to get a visa – and instead wound up as the crucial center of the Bush administration’s case for war. His is a classic story of a simple man who gets caught up in events outside his control, and winds up having an extraordinary impact on history.
