On AlterNet: saddam

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Dick Cheney Shows Off His Mastery of Lying

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. January 15, 2009.

Watching Dick Cheney's latest "exit interview" last night, it was hard not to marvel at the man's shameless, almost pathological, dishonesty.

Exposed: McCain's Presidential Transition Chief Aided Saddam Hussein

Murray Waas, Huffington Post. October 14, 2008.

William Timmons aided a lobbying effort on behalf of the former Iraqi dictator.

Letter Touted as Al-Qaeda-Iraq Link a CIA Forgery, Ordered by Bush

Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report. August 5, 2008.

"Maybe all these sources are just making stuff up. Maybe. But that's a helluva similar pattern of allegations, isn't it?"

Conservatives Used to Be Smart About Iraq -- in the 1990s

Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report. March 20, 2008.

Yep, Dick Cheney and John McCain both realized what they were getting into in Iraq, but rejected their own accurate thinking a decade later.

Ah, the Good Old Days for Christians in Iraq....Under Saddam

GottaLaff, Cliff Schecter's Blog. December 22, 2007.

Those lazy, crazy pre-invasion days...good times, good times.

Saddam's American Jailer Goes on Trial

The Associated PressOctober 16, 2007.

Lt-Col William Steele could face life behind bars.

Cheney in '92: Removing Saddam Is Not Worth American Casualties [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, September 28, 2007.

Oddly, Dick Cheney gets something right about Iraq, although it was fifteen years ago.

Bush on Saddam: "That Mother F**cker Tried to Take Out My Dad"

Guest Blogger, July 16, 2007.

Amanda Terkel: It's troubling that Bush believed he could use U.S. troops as personal hitmen to avenge a grudge.

Yes, overthrowing Saddam WAS a mistake [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, March 27, 2007.

According to Iraqi who pulled down Saddam's statue, "the Americans are worse than the dictatorship..."

Saddam Has the Last Laugh

Robert Scheer, Truthdig. March 21, 2007.

Congrats, George. Mission accomplished. You managed to make Saddam's tyranny look good in comparison with "liberated Iraq."

Olbermann special comment: Sect'y Rice: "Use the Google!" [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, February 26, 2007.

Schooling Rice on her idiotic Saddam/Hitler comparison

Now it's Bush and Cheney going after Iran...

Barry Lando, February 13, 2007.

Barry Lando: 27 years ago it was Jimmy Carter and Saddam Hussein

U.S. Role in Saddam's Invasion of Kuwait [VIDEO]

Barry Lando, January 30, 2007.

CIA backed Kuwait from the get-go...

America's destructive embargo on Iraq: 1990-2003 [VIDEO]

Barry Lando, January 26, 2007.

Saddam & America, Pt. 3...

Exclusive: Iraqi National Security Adviser Mowaffak Al-Rubaie responds to right wing and media misquotes... [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, January 10, 2007.

Quick to think Iraqis and Arabs are savages

Israelis jumping ship on Iraq?

Evan Derkacz, January 5, 2007.

Safer WITH Saddam...

Bush & Iraqi gov blame messenger, not selves, for "Execution-gate"

Raed Jarrar, January 4, 2007.

Raed Jarrar: Is it really about the cell phone guy?

Saddam: A Monster of Our Creation

Robert Scheer, AlterNet. January 3, 2007.

The hanging of Saddam Hussein was an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of President Bush's claim it was "an important milestone on Iraq's course to becoming a democracy."

Bush handed Saddam to sectarian lynch mob [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, January 1, 2007.

Managed to worsen Civil War ...

Pinochet and Saddam -- the Ironies

Barry Lando, December 11, 2006.

Barry Lando: The two dictators have one major thing in common -- support from the U.S.

Bush's November Surprise

Robert Scheer, AlterNet. November 8, 2006.

How convenient, for Saddam to be convicted two days before the elections.

Saddam's Unindicted Co-Conspirator

Norman Solomon, AlterNet. November 7, 2006.

Extracting the ugly facts on Donald Rumsfeld, the current U.S. defense secretary.

The Banana Election: From Hanging Chads to Hanging Saddam

Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. November 6, 2006.

Things are falling apart in Iraq, and with no end in sight, Americans will render their verdict on Bush's war on Tuesday.

Letterman v. O'Reilly II: [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, November 1, 2006.

You're putting words in my mouth. Just the way you put artificial facts in your head.

Saddam Hussein to be murdered for the GOP

Joshua Holland, October 23, 2006.

Joshua Holland: Another huge opportunity missed as ideology again trumps common sense...