When I traveled around Iraq during and after the war , I was stunned by the number of ordinary Iraqis who told me that President Bush and Saddam Hussein were secret chums , with the U.S. paying Saddam huge bribes so that he would give Washington an excuse to invade and plunder Iraqi oil .
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