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Tom Brokaw: President Clinton Thought Saddam Hussein Had WMD

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN, former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw recounted some of the rationale behind why the Bush administration believed that Saddam Hussein ...

Speaking of 'Tasteless'...Times Likens Lilac-Painted Baghdad Buildings to Suicide Bombings

And Iraqis thought they had it bad under Saddam Hussein: "Baghdad has weathered invasion, occupation, sectarian warfare and suicide bombers. But now it faces a new scourge: tastelessness." Back in ...

Obama Nabbing Osama: 'Glow of National Pride;' Bush's Capture of Saddam 'Momentarily' Halted 'Spiral of Concern'

First sentence of the Times' second paragraph on Obama's rising poll numbers after Osama's capture: "The glow of national pride seemed to rise above partisan politics, as support for the president ...

BBC's Katty Kay: Cheney 'Hoodwinked the American Public' into Believing Saddam Hussein Behind 9/11

On Sunday's syndicated Chris Matthews Show, panel member Katty Kay of the BBC claimed that Vice President Dick Cheney had convinced 70 percent of Americans to believe that Saddam Hussein was ...

Times Botches Quote By Limbaugh Guest Host on Obama's Address to Schoolchildren

After getting wrong a quote from conservative journalist Mark Steyn in a hostile front-page story, the Times runs a correction.

Iraq Oil Riches to "Reward the Cronies and Allies" of the U.S.?

The Times' lead economics reporter takes a paranoid, Michael Moore-style perspective on news that Iraq will award oil contracts to Western companies.

Nostalgia for the Good Old Days in Pre-War Iraq

Robert Worth's watercolor memory of pre-war Iraq: "Their Iraq was Basra before the first Gulf War, when it was full of cafes and canals, still known as 'the dark land' because of its thick canopy ...

John Burns Reflects on Iraq Five Years Later

John Burns: "My own experience, invariably, was that Iraqis I met who felt secure enough to speak with candor had an overwhelming desire to see American troops remain long enough to restore ...

U.S. Troops to Blame for Persecution of Gays in Iraq?

Reporter Cara Buckley: "One night shortly after Saddam Hussein fell, American soldiers burst into the apartment that Mohammed shared with his two brothers. They were looking for insurgents, but ...

Conservative Groups "Packaging 9/11" to Help Bush

Janet Elder claims conservatives are taking advantage of the "murky understanding" of voters who think Saddam was involved in 9-11. But what of the poll showing 1/3 of Democrats think Bush was ...
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