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...White House was trying to "knock down" a former ambassador, Joseph Wilson, who had disputed the claim--made by President Bush in his State of the Union address--that Iraq attempted to buy uranium in Niger. The Administration had built its case for war on the probability that Saddam Hussein had "reconstituted," in Vice President Dick Cheney's felicitous and inaccurate phrase, his nuclear-weapons program...
...having been the deputy Washington bureau chief for TIME. As it happens, that week was a big one at the White House. On that Sunday, the New York Times had published former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's now infamous Op-Ed describing his mission to Niger to investigate whether Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium to make nuclear weapons. Wilson said he had found no evidence of that and was confounded as to why the President would claim otherwise in his 2003 State of the Union address. As a freshly minted White House correspondent, I told the grand jury...
BIRTH OF A JIHADI Marwan's journey toward suicide murderer began just a few weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Before the war, he had been one of Fallujah's privileged young men: his father's successful business earned enough--even during the difficult years when the West imposed economic sanctions on Iraq--to provide a good life for Marwan and his six brothers and four sisters. In high school, he was an average student but excelled in Koranic studies at the local mosque...
...goes, 'America, they dumb. They bomb wrong palace.'" CORPORAL JONATHAN REESE, Pennsylvania National Guardsman assigned to watch over Saddam Hussein, quoting the deposed Iraqi leader's comments on the U.S. invasion of Iraq...
...true that thousands of Iranians have sacrificed their lives in the Iraqi-imposed war. It is true that billions of dollars have been spent for defense. And yes, it is true that there are many death wishes chanted by the masses: Death to America, to Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Israel, the Soviet Union and all other oppressive regimes. Do you believe that detesting such evils is a negative quality? These death chants hardly include "just about everything," as you suggest...