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Article: ONSLAUGHT BEGINS WITH A WHIMPER.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 21, 2003
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Byline: ROBERT FISK British journalist
BAGHDAD -- If this was the start of George W. Bush's "war on Saddam," it was truly pathetic. Two dull thumps of sound far to the south of Baghdad Thursday morning and a burst of tracer and anti-aircraft fire over the Iraqi capital, and all you could conclude was that the Anglo American conflict had started with a whimper, not a bang.
Thirty-five Cruise missiles - at a cost of $40 million along with four attacks by aircraft - could not destroy Saddam. In other words, the Americans missed.
And within an hour, at 5:30 a.m. yesterday morning, there was Saddam himself on Iraqi state television, specifying the ...