I Was Very Struck By The Fact

Bin Laden Was Constantly Revolving In His Mind The Fact That He Had Got Rid Of The Russians; Therefore, The Americans Can Be Got Rid Of, Too. And Where Better Than In The Country Where He Knows How To Fight?

U.s. Journalists I Don't Think Are Very Courageous. They Tend To Go Along With The Government's Policy Domestically And Internationally. To Question Is Seen As Being Unpatriotic, Or Potentially Subversive.

So Here's A Question From One Who Believed, Only A Week Ago, That Baghdad Might Just Collapse And That We Might Wake Up One Morning To Find The Baathist Militia And The Iraqi Army Gone And The Americans Walking Down Saadun Street With Their Rifles Over Their Shoulders. If The Iraqis Can Still Hold Out Against Such Overwhelming Force In Umm Qasr For Four Days, If They Can Keep Fighting In Basra And Nasiriyah – The Latter A City That Briefly Rose In Revolt Against Saddam's Regime In 1991 – Why Should Saddam's Forces Not Keep Fighting In Baghdad?

President Bush Cruelly Manipulated The Grief Of The American People - And The Sympathy Of The Rest Of The World - To Introduce A 'world Order' Dreamed Up By A Clutch Of Fantasists Advising The Secretary Of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld.

The Sheer Violence Of It, The Howl Of Air Raid Sirens And The Air-cutting Fall Of The Missiles Carried Its Own Political Message; Not Just To President Saddam But To The Rest Of The World. We Are The Superpower, Those Explosions Said Last Night. This Is How We Do Business.