Reading Jake Tapper’s breezy and highly skeptical view of last night’s SOTU, I stopped in my tracks at the following item:
Bush was only repeating here what the Iraqis themselves have said, according to press reports. According to a Kuwaiti newspaper story from last summer, in a June 2002 meeting among Hussein, his two sons and other members of his inner circle of advisors, Ali Hasan al-Majid, a Saddam cousin who possesses a diabolical expertise in chemical warfare, asked “has the time not come to take the fight to their own homes in America? They wanted this to be a war on all fronts, so let it be a war on all fronts and using all weapons and means.” Another referred to Iraqis becoming “human bombs in the thousands, willing to blow up America in particular,” and yet another suggested that “If bin Laden truly did carry out the September attacks as they claim, then as Allah is my witness, we will prove to them that what happened in September is a picnic compared to the wrath of Saddam Hussein.”
Jeez. Which Kuwaiti Bob Woodward unearthed that anecdote? If true, why isn’t it common knowledge?
The Dish 