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Article: THE HAWKS' HAWK THE ROAD THE U.S. TRAVELED TO BAGHDAD WAS PAVED BY WASHINGTON STATE'S HENRY `SCOOP' JACKSON.(P-I Focus)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 6, 2003
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Byline: ROGER MORRIS
America's attack on Iraq started 65 years ago in the wooded curving inlets and gentle fog of Snohomish County.
At least that's one genealogy of the war, curling back through closed-door politics where so much of U.S. history happens.
Nineteen thirty-eight was the year Henry Martin Jackson, an ambitious 26-year-old Democrat from Everett fresh out of the University of Washington Law School, was elected prosecuting attorney for Snohomish County. As usual, few outside Washington state noticed the obscure local vote. But it launched a fateful political career, and ultimately led to the U.S. missiles, tanks and troops flung into ...