“According to the 2000 edition of the State Department’s annual ‘Patterns of Global Terrorism’ report, issued in April [30] 2001, Iraq has ties to various terrorist groups and does terrible things to dissidents, but, ‘The regime has not attempted an anti-Western terrorist attack since its failed plot to assassinate former President [George H.W.] Bush in 1993 in Kuwait.’ ”
– Michael Kinsley, “Ours Not To Reason Why,” Slate.com, Sep. 26, 2002