I Don't Know What Happens If They

President Bush Cruelly Manipulated The Grief Of The American People - And The Sympathy Of The Rest Of The World - To Introduce A 'world Order' Dreamed Up By A Clutch Of Fantasists Advising The Secretary Of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld.

It's A Journalist's Job To Be A Witness To History. We're Not There To Worry About Ourselves. We're There To Try And Get As Near As We Can, In An Imperfect World, To The Truth And Get The Truth Out.

The Sheer Violence Of It, The Howl Of Air Raid Sirens And The Air-cutting Fall Of The Missiles Carried Its Own Political Message; Not Just To President Saddam But To The Rest Of The World. We Are The Superpower, Those Explosions Said Last Night. This Is How We Do Business.

I Suppose, In The End, We Journalists Try - Or Should Try - To Be The First Impartial Witnesses Of History. If We Have Any Reason For Our Existence, The Least Must Be Our Ability To Report History As It Happens So That No One Can Say: 'we Didn't Know - No One Told Us.'

People Turn To Violence, Because They Have No Other Avenue Left.