Saddam Hussein

What Does 30,000 Troops Really Buy Us?

Megan Carpentier | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics


Megan Carpentier

Is a graceful withdrawal and a less unstable puppet government worth more American lives? Are those lives really worth that "success"?

Czech Republic: Iraq Planned Rocket Attack On Radio Free Europe

AP | KAREL JANICEK | Posted 11.30.2009 | World


PRAGUE — Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime planned to use an anti-tank rocket to attack the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in ...

Mysterious 'Saddam Channel' Hits Iraq TV

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 11.30.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Turning on their TVs during the long holiday weekend, Iraqis were greeted by a familiar if unexpected face from their brutal past: Sad...

Saddam Was Telling Truth In Missing Gulf War Pilot

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 11.29.2009 | World


WASHINGTON — Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time. The United States just didn't believe him. So it took the most powerful military ...

Gross Failure of the Media

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media


Cenk Uygur

How can over a quarter of the country believe something that is patently untrue, utterly ridiculous, and lacking even one iota of proof?

Republicans Once Again Shamelessly Exploiting Terrorism For Political Purposes

Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics


Andy Ostroy

Since 2001, 195 cases of terrorism have been uneventfully prosecuted in civilian courts, with 91% ending in convictions, But this little factoid surely won't stop Republicans from exploitative political posturing.

Iranian Memoir By Freed Prisoner Haleh Esfandiari

The New York Review of Books | Claire Messud | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books


In Emin Prison Claire Messud The New York Review of Books "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran" by Haleh Esfandiari. Ecco, ...

"Saddam Hussein" Calls In To Radio Free Iraq

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2009 | Posted 10.27.2009 | World


Many people around the world have been cursed with cringe-inducing names (as this BBC story proves). Some, however, are more unfortunate than others. ...

My Testimony on 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques'

Ali Faisal Al-Lami | Posted 11.29.2009 | World


Ali Faisal Al-Lami

In 2008, I was kidnapped from Baghdad International Airport by American civilians with no known affiliation, and was blindfolded and taken to a facility where I was initially interrogated in a hostile way.

Tikrit Prison Break: Iraq Detains 109

AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 11.25.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — More than 100 prison officials and guards have been detained after 16 prisoners, including five al-Qaida-linked inmates awaiting execu...

Media Mud Pies: CNN's Embarrassing Response to Fox

Linda Milazzo | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media


Linda Milazzo

In response to Fox's childish and embarrassing ad in the Washington Post that challenged competitors' coverage of the 9/12 teabaggers, CNN is airing this equally chilidish and embarrassing ad.

Hitler Wants You to Wear a Condom

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living


Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Sometimes shock campaigns work but this one just leaves me feeling cold. And kinda icky inside.

A Stupid Made-for-TV Controversy

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Jim Wallis

News cycles thrive on controversy and the extreme, so those elements of our country are continuing to get more and more airtime.

Rachel Maddow: Her Intelligence is Right

Joe Cirincione | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media


Joe Cirincione

Maddow will not let former officials dodge responsibility for launching an unnecessary war in Iraq. Why do other journalists?

Andy Card: A Tale Of Two Quotes

Jackson Williams | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics


Jackson Williams

George Bush minions are doing quick damage control in the wake of Tom Ridge's revelation that he smelled a rat in White House efforts to raise the terror threat level on the weekend before Bush's '04 reelection.

Fox News "Can't Get a Straight Answer" from White House

Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics


Andy Ostroy

The hypocritical Republican crybabies at Fox are outraged over a heated exchange last Thursday between Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs and their White House correspondent, Major Garrett.

Do Governments Need The Media to Bring Criminals to Justice?

Eric Blinderman | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media


Eric Blinderman

America's Most Wanted has successfully bridged the gap between entertainment and law enforcement; The Wanted attempts to do this on an international scale.

Must it be Business as Usual as the People of Iran Hang in the Balance?

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 08.20.2009 | World


Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Citizen lobbies and elected representatives have to ask this simple question: do we have to do business with people who do business with the Mullahs?

Random Thoughts for a Monday Morning

Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics


Andy Ostroy

For sure, let's not focus on the eight years it took Bush to destroy the economy when we can blame Obama for not fixing this colossal mess in his first 5 months.

History Has Not Yet Judged Bush

James Denselow | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics


James Denselow

Certainly Bush's rewriting of his Iraq legacy will be helped by his decision to reverse his earlier policies, abandoning the idealism of the top-down reinvention of Iraq, for reality-based pragmatism.

Bush Library: Saddam Hussein's Personal Handgun To Be On Display

Guardian | Posted 08.06.2009 | World


George Bush is not a man who does irony. It's not in his personal vocabulary. Take the exquisite irony behind the story of Saddam Hussein's gun....

Iraq: Saddam Grave Field Trips Now Banned

AP | Posted 08.06.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Iraq's government has banned all organized visits to Saddam Hussein's grave in the village of Ouja, the dictator's birth place north o...

Bush May Put Saddam's Gun In His Presidential Library

New York Times | Don Van Natta Jr. | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics


Many American presidents have kept prized possessions within reach during their White House years. Franklin D. Roosevelt cherished a 19th century ship...

'W' Is for Withdrawal

Robert Koehler | Posted 08.02.2009 | World


Robert Koehler

To pretend that Iraq is sovereign is just the latest insulting verbal Quonset hut the Washington military-political-media establishment has constructed for its own temporary shelter.

Saddam And Bush Had Same Position On Geneva Convention:

Michaelmoore.com | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics


Saddam Hussein vs. George W. Bush on the Geneva Conventions FBI Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, March 13, 2004 [...] (S) Regarding limitations pla...