President Bush in his speech on St. Patrick’s Day issued a challenge to Saddam Hussein: “Get out within 48 hours, and take your sons with you.” I hope Hussein takes this warning seriously. If he leaves, his country will be spared a lot of bloodshed, at least until the Shi’ites take over. But he probably won’t leave. In a superb two-hour documentary, “The Long Road to War,” which was aired on PBS’s “Frontline” on the evening of March 17, the same evening as Bush’s speech, it becomes clear that Saddam Hussein almost cracked under pressure, twice: when the Shi’ites of … Continue reading CIA Assets in the Middle East