The whole process had been an imaginary projection of US power in any case — removing the Iraqi people from the picture meant that all attention could be focused on American suffering and the meaning of the war in American life.
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Could Iraq have been another Libya?
Fighting continues in Libya, but only around the handful of remaining Gaddafi strongholds, in one of which the colonel himself may still be entrenched.
Howard’s ‘Iraq in six pars’ letter: Saddam was a very bad leader
In official correspondence to a Canberra primary school student named Christopher, sent on April 15 2003, John Howard lays out the case for the Iraq war in six succinct paragraphs
The CIA plot to depict Saddam and bin Laden as pedophiles
The CIA created a fake video showing Osama bin Laden and his crew sitting around a campfire drinking and bragging about their “conquests with boys” — and had plans to “flood Iraq” with fake videos of Saddam Hussein having sex with a teenage boy, the Washington Post reveals.
PHOTO GALLERY: Babies dressed as dictators
It’s the axis of adorable, with a Danish artist dressing up her baby as the most famous dictators of the 20th century, from Adolf Hitler to Saddam Hussein. Even Stalin started off as an innocent baby.
PHOTO GALLERY: Inside Saddam Hussein’s private photo album
As part of Slate’s investigation into Saddam Hussein’s capture, they’ve released ten private photos of Saddam — including Mafia don Saddam and birthday party Saddam — which aided the US military in capturing him.
How social networking toppled Saddam
The first in a fascinating five part series on how the US military managed to finally capture Saddam Hussein. By changing how the military views the enemy — focusing on their social networks not just a hierarchy system — it’s become a success story for modern warfare.
Blair: I would have invaded Iraq anyway
An unrepentant Tony Blair says it was right to invade Iraq and dispose of Saddam Hussein even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction. So the cynics were right all along? asks Paul Reynolds.
Sex with Hitler: just say no
A risque new German AIDS awareness campaign features graphic images — and footage — of Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein and Adolph Hitler mid-coitus, with the slogan “AIDS is a mass murderer”. Too far or necessarily shocking?
Picasso painting found in Iraq…or was it?
A Picasso painting has been ‘found’ in Iraq, supposedly looted from Kuwait after Saddam Hussein’s invasion. But on closer inspection, where is the record of any missing Picasso painting?
Getting to know Saddam Hussein: the FBI conversations
FBI reports of interviews it conducted in 2004 with former Iraq leader Saddam Hussein have been published them today. Crikey intern Sophie Tarr picks out the best bits.
Terrorism and politics in Australia: an absurd farce
Meantime, Greg Sheridan, who has only recently been surgically removed from Alexander Downer, weighed in today to laud our success in the War Against Stuff, writes Bernard Keane.
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Kevin Rudd and party pies… you decide…
Neo-con Ledeen praises Howard as “arguably the greatest Western leader of the past decade”
Michael Ledeen is a key figure in the neo-con firmament, a man whose ideas about the Arab world have been thoroughly proven false time and time again. It therefore makes sense that Australia’s leading Zionist lobby, AIJAC, has invited him here on a speaking tour, writes Antony Loewenstein.
No charges laid yet over AWB. How convenient!
This Saturday marks the first anniversary of the completion of the Cole Report into the AWB kickbacks scandal, which recommended criminal charges be laid against 12 people, including 11 former AWB managers. But nothing has happened. No charges have been laid, writes Alex Mitchell.
