Author of infamous "axis of evil" speech reflects 10 years on

When the Bush administration decided to go to war in 2003, David Frum found himself at the centre of a daunting messaging effort. He looks back on the fraught times that followed Bush’s ‘Axis of Evil’ speech

MY YOUNGEST daughter was born in Dec 2001: A war baby. When my wife nursed little Beatrice in the middle of the night, she’d hear F-16s patrolling the Washington skies.

A few weeks before, a sniper had terrorised the Washington suburbs. Anthrax attacks had killed five people and infected 17 others. What would come next?