I heard the president say: "For a while we were marching to war. Now we're marching to peace." I heard that the US military had purchased 1,500,000,000 bullets for use in the coming year. That is 58 bullets for every Iraqi adult and child. I heard that Saddam Hussein, in solitary confinement, was spending his time writing poetry, reading the Koran, eating cookies and muffins, and taking care of some bushes and shrubs. I heard that he had placed a circle of white stones around a small plum tree.

Eliot Weinberger in der LRB und was er über den Irak gehört hat. Dreihundertzehn mal »I heard ...«