Absolutely No Americans Were on Saddam's Payola List

How do we know that? Well... actually... we don't know that.

Saddam Hussein: "Compared to tanks, journalists are cheap — and you get more for your money."

See Saddam's Cash by Stephen F. Hayes in The Weekly Standard, dated May 5:

.... The Galloway affair was triggered when a reporter happened upon a slim, blue folder at one of the 23 Iraqi ministries — a snowflake in the avalanche of information loosed by the removal of Saddam Hussein from power. Some of the regime's records no longer exist. Iraqi officials destroyed some before the war began. Coalition bombs wiped out others. Looters made off with more. Still, Bush administration sources say they have recovered enough Iraqi government and Baath party documents to fill 100 semi-trailers. "We're overwhelmed with information," says one Pentagon official. "It's going to take a long time to go through it all."

That process is just now beginning — a fact that is surely rattling nerves around the world....

Here's to the first glimmer of sunshine penetrating the gloom! May the clouds part and let in the full panoply of warming, healing rays!

(Thanks, Charles.)

P.S. Has the "nation's newspaper of record" picked up this story yet?

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 04/29/03 09:20:00 AM
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