Saddam Hussein

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  • White House won't condemn Saddam spectacle

    Tony Snow says the thing that matters is that the condemned man was a killer.
    By Tim Grieve January 4, 2007

  • Blaming the messenger

    We know who was responsible for Saddam Hussein's execution. Who cares who photographed it?
    By Tim Grieve January 3, 2007

  • Saddam gallows video

    A dictator's final moments.
    By David Puner January 2, 2007

  • Saddam: The death of a dictator

    Through the bumbling of the U.S.-backed regime, justice becomes revenge, and a despot becomes a martyr.
    By Juan Cole December 30, 2006

  • Mugged by reality

    Once the warrior queen of neoconservatism, Jeane Kirkpatrick died a critic of Bush's unilateralism. Her death illuminates the conflicting legacies of the movement she helped found.
    By Sidney Blumenthal December 14, 2006

  • Another question about the timing of Saddam's sentencing

    If U.S. politics weren't a factor, why was the announcement made before the tribunal was ready with its explanation?
    By Tim Grieve November 6, 2006

  • Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death. Is it a lifeline for the GOP?

    Is the sentence a sign of progress or just another reminder of an unpopular and unnecessary war?
    By Tim Grieve November 5, 2006

  • Conservatives: Who cares if we teach terrorists how to build nukes?

    A U.S. document dump online was supposed to help prove Saddam had WMD. Instead, it published bomb-making details to the world.
    By Scott Rosenberg November 3, 2006

  • How bad is he?

    Bush ran as a moderate, tacked right and governed ineffectually -- before 9/11. Since then he's become the most radical American president in history -- and arguably the worst.
    By Sidney Blumenthal September 12, 2006

  • Quote of the Day

    Bush's plan for Saddam Hussein -- months before he supposedly had a plan for Saddam Hussein.
    By Tim Grieve September 6, 2006

  • Remembrance of Bush's fiascoes

    As he travels the nation to commemorate Katrina and 9/11, the president is only highlighting the tragedy of his own incompetence.
    By Sidney Blumenthal August 31, 2006

  • The suspicious death of Dr. Evil

    Spurred by a Salon inquiry, the Army is reopening an investigation into whether Saddam's poison master died as a result of abusive treatment by U.S. troops.
    By Michael Scherer July 14, 2006

  • If Bill O'Reilly were dictator

    Indulging in the commentator's Saddam Hussein fantasies.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski June 21, 2006

  • Killing the CIA

    In Goss, Bush found the perfect hatchet man to take vengeance on a despised agency. Now Goss is gone, scandal looms -- and the CIA is ruined.
    By Sidney Blumenthal May 11, 2006

  • Hezbollah on the Tigris?

    Like the militant Lebanese group, fiery cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr is using both guns and butter to seize power in Iraq.
    By David Enders May 8, 2006

  • Attacking Iran: Are they nuts?

    If the U.S. attacked Iran, the consequences would be catastrophic -- including a possible American retreat under fire in Iraq.
    By Joe Conason April 21, 2006

  • Bush's bluster

    What good are U.S. threats against Iran when the whole world has lost its trust in our government?
    By Joe Conason April 14, 2006

  • Bush's bogus document dump

    The administration seeded its new public archive of Iraq documents with jihadist materials completely unrelated to Saddam.
    By Fritz Umbach April 13, 2006

  • "Saddam chose to deny inspectors"

    Bush repeated this bald-faced lie recently. The cowering press still lets him get away with it, but the public is no longer fooled.
    By Joe Conason March 31, 2006

  • Better off under Saddam? Former U.N. rights chief says so

    Violence is widespread and unavoidable now, John Pace says.
    By Tim Grieve March 2, 2006

  • Colonel of truth

    Former Bush insider Lawrence Wilkerson blasts Dick Cheney's "paranoia" -- and says Cheney and Rumsfeld are to blame for Abu Ghraib.
    By Mark Follman February 27, 2006

  • Orrin Hatch, Saddam Hussein and the art of taking it all back

    The Utah Republican steps back, not so gracefully, from a claim that the Iraqi leader provided support to al-Qaida.
    By Tim Grieve February 22, 2006

  • America's unlikely savior

    Recently, the U.S. was calling for Muqtada al-Sadr's head. Now, the fiery cleric may be the only man who can defuse Iraq's Sunni-Shiite conflict.
    By Nir Rosen February 3, 2006

  • Iraq's oil shock

    As the country's energy nightmare continues, U.S. troops are using nearly 40 times more fuel per day than the average, increasingly angry Iraqi.
    By Robert Bryce January 17, 2006

  • The party lines

    21 leading Democrats who voted for the Iraq war resolution -- and what they're saying now.
    Compiled by J.J. Helland and Juliana Bunim December 9, 2005
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