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As Declan and others have suggested, it's true: TIME has no rights to re-publish the book excerpt which first appeared in TIME's March 2, 1998 issue (and online that week). The book, "A World Transformed," by George H.W. Bush (Sr.) and Brent Scowcroft, was published by Alfred A. Knopf Inc.; the authors and the publisher hold the rights. The headline on the excerpt in TIME was "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam." A notice was posted to the TIME.com website on Nov. 11, 2003, to clarify why this excerpt is not available through TIME Archives: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980302/ special_report.clintons_29.html "The page you've requested is an excerpt from a book by Brent Scowcroft and George H. W. Bush titled A World Transformed, which appeared in the March 2, 1998, issue of TIME magazine under the title "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam". It has been removed from our site because the publisher did not grant us rights to sell the piece online through the TIME archive." Thanks for the opportunity to clarify this. - Diana Pearson for TIME magazine