award-winning articles that claimed saddam hussein was in alliance with al-qaeda. making people believe that iraq was responsible for 9/11. he is not out of journalism after there was no evidence of that. they are all embedded in washington culture.de the think tanks especially. they only become important and enlivened when the u.s. is at war. they get psychological, economic and the political benefits from it at everybody else s expense. tucker: if you claimed there was a direct connection between saddam hussein andnd al-qaeda, 9/11 and saddam, that is clearly untrue. how in the world could you stay in journalism? how could jeff goldburg go on to run one of the most famous magazines in english? the amazing thing is tucker, the more you promote war, even if you get it wrong, the more you are going to