“The information was correct but the interpretations were not. I did my duty up to the last minute.”
New York Times (12 July 2003) "AFTER THE WAR; Hussein's Perennial Optimist Reappears"
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BBC Monitoring (7 April 2003) "Iraqi information minister denies presence of US forces in Baghdad" (as US forces reported entering the center of Baghdad)
“The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!”
As quoted in A Gigantic Mistake (2004) by Mickey Z, p. 171
“I now inform you that you are too far from reality.”
Statement to John Burns of The New York Times among his last words to western reporters before going on administrative leave (9 April 2003), as quoted in Politics and Propaganda : Weapons of Mass Seduction (2004) by Nicholas J. O'Shaughnessy, p. 233
As quoted in Baghdad or Bust : The Inside Story of Gulf War 2 (2003) by Mike Ryan, p. 168