2/14/2003

“By February 14 [2003], after having combed through more than three hundred sites in Iraq unimpeded for eleven weeks, U.N. inspectors had still found nothing, which only proved, said the neocons, that they were dupes. ‘U.N. weapons inspectors are being seriously deceived,’ declared [Defense Policy Board Adviser] Richard Perle. ‘It reminds me of the way the Nazis hoodwinked Red Cross officials inspecting the concentration camp at Theresienstadt in 1944.’ ”

 – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 289