But I'm talking about him because when he was four months old, my foreign editor forced me to go back to Baghdad where I had been reporting all throughout the Saddam regime and during the fall of Baghdad and afterwards, and I remember getting on the plane in tears, crying to be separated from my son, and while I was there, a quite famous Iraqi politician who was a friend of mine said to me, "What are you doing here?
Men jeg snakker om ham fordi da han var fire måneder gammel. tvang sjefen min meg tilbake til Baghdad, hvor jeg hadde rapportert gjennom Saddam regimet og gjennom Bagdad's fall og etter, og jeg husker at jeg satt på flyet i tårer, gråt for å bli skilt fra min sønn, og mens jeg var der, en ganske berømt irakisk politiker, som var en venn av meg, sa til meg, "Hva gjør du her?"