Hussein has CHOSEN to SPEND his money on building weapons of MASS destruction and palaces for his cronies.

We were told by the PRESIDENT that we had no alternative but to GO into IRAQ because of the threat that Saddam Hussein's WEAPONS of mass destruction posed, but to DATE, these weapons have not been found.

My journalistic MISSION was straightforward: to AWAIT the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this WOULD be. But the diplomacy - the meetings in the U.N. security council, the allegations about weapons of mass destruction, the martial language of TONY Blair and George W. BUSH - all suggested a war was brewing.