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Writing Is Like Walking In A Deserted Street. Out Of The Dust In The Street You Make A Mud Pie.

How Bush And His Junta Succeeded In Deflecting America's Anger From Bin Laden To Saddam Hussein Is One Of The Great Public Relations Conjuring Tricks Of History. But They Swung It. A Recent Poll Tells Us That One In Two Americans Now Believe Saddam Was Responsible For The Attack On The World Trade Centre.

I Was The British Spy Who Had Come Out Of The Woodwork And Told It How It Really Was, And Anything I Said To The Contrary Only Enforced The Myth. And Since I Was Writing For A Public Hooked On Bond And Desperate For The Antidote, The Myth Stuck.

Yet It's Not For Want Of Future That I'm Here, He Thought. It's For Want Of A Present.

It's A Principle Of Mine To Come Into The Story As Late As Possible, And To Tell It As Fast As You Can.