This is the entire text of a “News in Brief” from this morning’s Day, which in turn is taken from a longer article in the Washington Post:
Saddam Hussein told an FBI interviewer before he was hanged that he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about appearing weak to Iran, according to declassified accounts of the interviews released yesterday. The former Iraqi president also denounced Osama bin Laden as “a zealot” and said he had no dealings with al-Qaeda.
Hussein, in fact, said he felt so vulnerable to the perceived threat from “fanatic” leaders in Tehran that he would have been prepared to seek a “security agreement with the United States to protect [Iraq] from threats in the region.”
Those two paragraphs confirm every argument we war opponents made both before and after the war. This will be ignored, or dismissed as lies from the evil Saddam, but in fact it’s consistent with what the government was told by reliable sources even before the war.
Doesn’t it seem strange that this confirmation that our own “leaders” are war criminals only merits inclusion in the “News in Brief” section.
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