Archive for the 'Saddam Hussein' Category

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Saturday, April 7th, 2007

White House Watch by Dan Froomkin
Cheney Sticks to His Delusions
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, April 6, 2007; 1:20 PM
Faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, even President Bush has backed off his earlier inflammatory assertions about links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.
Please find the piece here.

It Keeps Getting Worse

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

 The Executin’ MBA “knows a thing or two about a thing or two.”*
“Saddam death not dignified, says Bush
Ibon Villelabeitia, Baghdad
January 7, 2007
US President George Bush says Saddam Hussein could have been hanged in a more dignified way, while one of his closest Arab allies says the hanging has turned the former Iraqi dictator into a […]

Before it became Camp Run-Amok…

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

 This is a long, informative piece in the New York Times
best tradition of being the paper of record.

January 7, 2007
Before Hanging, a Push for Revenge and a Push Back
By JOHN F. BURNS
This article was reported by John F. Burns, James Glanz, Sabrina Tavernise and Marc Santora and written by Mr. Burns.
BAGHDAD, Jan. 6 — When […]

I would have thought he could have raised legal monies by upping his investment in the Car Painting While-U-Wait franchises and cashing out of the struggling Farouk Dance Studios.

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

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Lebanese lawyer Bushra Khalil, a member of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s defence team, said her client does not fear execution and will either face the death penalty for crimes against humanity or return as president of Iraq.(AFP/Marwan Naamani)
After her statement she informed the assembled media that her company would be the sole distributor of […]