Saddam Hussein

Salon Who is the CIA allowed to kill?

Cheney's secret assassination program may be terminated, but the U.S. is already carrying out "targeted killings"
By Mark Benjamin Jul 17, 2009

  • We tortured to justify war

    Dick Cheney keeps saying "enhanced interrogation" was used to stop imminent attacks, but evidence is mounting that the real reason was to invent evidence linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida.
    By Joe Conason May 14, 2009

  • Who wants to visit Saddam's house?

    The Iraqi president does his best Darth Vader imitation in HBO's miniseries "House of Saddam."
    By Heather Havrilesky December 5, 2008

  • A hint of freedom for Iraqi women

    Cultural repression by the Muslim militias has waned slightly, but women still miss freedoms they enjoyed under Saddam Hussein.
    By Anna Badkhen August 14, 2008

  • New evidence suggests Ron Suskind is right

    What was an Iraqi politician doing at CIA headquarters just days before he distributed a fake memo incriminating Saddam Hussein in 9/11?
    By Joe Conason August 8, 2008

  • Bush "at peace" waging war

    A new transcript reveals the president, on the brink of the Iraq invasion, full of faith, calm and unyielding optimism.
    By Mark Danner October 18, 2007

  • The man who sold the war

    "Curveball" author Bob Drogin talks about the Iraqi defector responsible for much of the CIA's bogus prewar intelligence about Iraqi WMD.
    By Alex Koppelman October 16, 2007

  • "Seven countries in five years"

    Wesley Clark's new memoir casts more light on the Bush administration's secret strategies for regime change in Iran and elsewhere.
    By Joe Conason October 12, 2007

  • The war president "at peace" with himself

    Bush's 2003 conversation with the Spanish prime minister shows his smug determination to invade Iraq at all costs.
    By Joe Conason September 28, 2007

  • Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction

    Salon exclusive: Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq.
    By Sidney Blumenthal September 6, 2007

  • Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Saddam Hussein and 9/11

    Rove explains Cheney's 1994 view that overthrowing Saddam wouldn't be worth "very many" American lives.
    By Tim Grieve August 20, 2007

  • The Iraq war is lost

    Bush and his band of backers won't admit that -- but their strategy is already defined by the specter of American defeat.
    By Peter Galbraith July 18, 2007

  • The Libby lobby's pardon campaign

    Having never expressed remorse for his crime, Scooter Libby instead enlisted his neoconservative friends to win him reduced prison time.
    By Sidney Blumenthal June 7, 2007

  • How Bush's war bolstered Syria

    The chaos in Iraq has emboldened Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime and given Syria new power to meddle in the Middle East.
    By Mohamad Bazzi May 31, 2007

  • Paul Wolfowitz's fatal weakness

    The cronyism that may cost him his World Bank job is also what caused the Iraq debacle.
    By Juan Cole May 14, 2007

  • George Tenet, spook for all seasons

    The former CIA chief seems strangely oblivious that his self-serving defense is shredding the remains of his reputation.
    By Sidney Blumenthal May 3, 2007

  • From Norman Rockwell to Abu Ghraib

    To understand how Bush justifies a torture policy that is the bane of our nation, consider the sentimental cowboy art that decks his Oval Office walls.
    By Sidney Blumenthal April 26, 2007

  • Libby's last disinformation campaign

    Not only did Scooter's defense rely on emotion over facts, but it appealed to the jury to dismiss the craft of journalism as false by nature.
    By Sidney Blumenthal February 22, 2007

  • How Libby became Cheney's pawn

    The vice president knew the intelligence for the Iraq war was cooked. So he launched his aide to smear the man who took the information public.
    By Sidney Blumenthal February 1, 2007

  • How the left caused 9/11, by Dinesh D'Souza

    An interview with the conservative polemicist, who accuses the cultural left of provoking al-Qaida's attack in his new book, "The Enemy at Home."
    By Alex Koppelman January 20, 2007

  • Bush: "We're going forward"

    And other highlights/lowlights from the president's interview with "60 MInutes."
    By David Puner January 16, 2007

  • Did the U.S. just provoke Iran?

    Thursday's raid on the Iranian consulate is more evidence that President Bush is ready to escalate the conflict.
    By Juan Cole January 12, 2007

  • Saddam: mourning and burial

    The executed leader comes home.
    By David Puner January 9, 2007

  • More Saddam footage

    Another cell phone camera?
    By David Puner January 9, 2007

  • Theater of blood

    Bush wanted his Iraq war to be a lofty Shakespearean history. He got a vicious, corpse-strewn revenge tragedy.
    By Gary Kamiya January 9, 2007
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