From Newsweek
By Howard Fineman

Evil was on the loose in the world, President George W. Bush had told the country, and on his first Thanksgiving in office–November 2001–he was on his way to Fort Campbell in Kentucky to dine with newly trained troops heading out to fight the (evil) Taliban in Afghanistan. In the conference room aboard Air Force One, we talked about evil. “Is Saddam evil?” I asked. Glancing across the table at his aides, he demurred. I asked again; again, a demurral. We went on to other topics. Several exchanges later, Bush interrupted an answer to blurt out a declaration: “By the way, Saddam is evil!”

When the history is written, the saga of the Bushes and the Butcher of Baghdad will be a central thread of the family’s story–and of America’s at the millennium.

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