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I don't have a transcript of the retraction interview, but transcripts of almost everything DOD personnel say in interviews can be found here. If you're really into it, you can have them e-mailed to you when they become available.

I can't help noticing this fixation on one or two phrases in speeches and interviews, almost as if they hope nobody will notice anything else that is said. From the same "Good Morning America" interview:

Gibson: Well indeed, this is a day of looking forward as well as back to some extent, and we will do that through the morning, but I do want to talk some about policy, because -- because the critics look at Iraq, Mr. Secretary, and they say to the extent that it is a front in the war on terror, it is the war itself that made it such, and that the war is proving to be a recruiting tool for al Qaeda.

Wolfowitz: No, I’m sorry. I mean, Saddam Hussein was an advocate of terrorism, a financier of terrorism, a harborer of terrorists before -- the things that we told you about before that George Tenet told the Senate Armed Services Committee, the things that Secretary Powell told the U.N. Security Council. Secretary Powell spoke about this man Zarqawi, who was in Iraq, clearly sheltered by Baghdad. Everything we’ve learned since then only deepens our understanding. The one bomber still at-large from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was sheltered in Iraq for 10 years, and we’ve learned more about him. The ties were there. There’s no question that getting rid of that threat has been a great advance, but also importantly, Iraq has a chance now, instead of being a constant destabilizing force in that key part of the world, to eventually -- not overnight, it takes time -- eventually become a positive force for stability, and that’s what we’re struggling to achieve.


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