Welcome to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time, tonight featuring Coast to Coast A.M. from March 13, 2002.

From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I bid you all good evening.

Good morning. Good afternoon.

Wherever you may be across Earth 24 timesomes. I'm Mark Bell. And this is coast to coast a.m. Traversing the world. Great to be here. Got a brand new affiliate for you tonight. KDMS in El Dorado, Arizona. 1290 on the dial. 5,000 big one. Should be a good regional signal

without much power. GM there, Rosh, Rosh, Rosh, Pertridge, I guess it is, and the program

director, Brett Miller. Thank you very much. Welcome to the world's weirdest, strangest, most

unusual but fun program.

Today was an interesting day. I'll tell you about it in a moment. First, let's look at the scary

world news. The president fielded questions on more than a dozen issues today during his

fifth, only five white house news conferences

thus far and the big topic was iraq

and he said president saddam hussein is indeed a menace his words

and we're going to deal with him

his words and president st Saddam Hussein,

and then he went on, talked about Osama bin Laden, a man he said once he wanted dead or alive,

has been reduced to a marginal figure in the war on terrorism.

President Bush said he's also leaving all options on the table as the Pentagon reworks its nuclear weapons policy to deter any attack on the U.S.,

including from non-nuclear states such as Iraq, Iran, Libya, and Syria.

You know, and I wrote after this, and you know, I pre-read all my news, I wrote, meaning what?

First part of the story, you could take to mean that we're going to attack Iraq, maybe.

We're talking to our allies about the possibility of attacking Iraq, but

this nuclear thing, what's going on there? Meaning what? We're retooling

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