re: #117 Barefoot Grin

I started to also make the turn when Bush’s shadow president and his crew started to put extreme pressure on the methodical inspectors to get out before their work was done. But if I’m honest, they played me well with Judith Miller and the non-stop loops of Saddam’s evil (a real thing) and his treatment of both the Kurds and the people who lived in the marsh areas (as I recall).

Saddam was an early iteration of FAFO. In retrospect, offing him wasn’t worth it.