It'd be interesting to see if in fact the United States really is closing in on him. I wouldn't be surprised. It looks to me like some of the cells surrounding him and protecting him may be breaking down.

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I have every confidence that the answer I provided was circulated to the appropriate officials within our government.

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The question now is how that answer was or was not used by our political leadership.

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If [Bush administration officials] were referring to Niger when they were referring to uranium sales from Africa to Iraq ... that information was erroneous and ... they knew about it well ahead of both the publication of the British white paper and the president's State of the Union address, ... Meet the Press.

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I think he's trying to reassure his followers that he's still alive and that he's still rebelling and trying to confront this occupation.

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Now you've got Saddam in a position where he's either been flushed or he's been forced to go back [underground]. And if he's been flushed, and if he's running around every two hours as they say, then presumably he's just a couple of steps ahead of the coalition forces.

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It strikes me as either they were flushed from a previous hiding place, or else they were so confident that they really just gave up some basic security.

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I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.

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Either the administration has some information that it has not shared with the public, or, yes, they were using the selective use of facts to bolster the decision in a case that had already been made -- a decision that had been made to go to war.

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