CBS anchor Dan Rather interviewed Saddam Hussein on February 26, 2003. “Asked by the CBS anchor if he was destroying the missiles prohibited by the UN, Saddam answered, ‘Which missiles? What do you mean? We have no missiles outside the specifications of the United Nations, and the inspection teams are here and they’re looking. I believe the United States knows and the world knows that Iraq has none of what has been said at the higher political levels. So, the missiles…that are against the resolution of the United Nations, these do not exist. And they have been destroyed.’ ”
– Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 75