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Waterboarding, Paris Hilton Liked More Than Congress

Matt Cantor — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:50:05 CST

A Gallup poll released Wednesday finds that Americans' approval of Congress has hit yet another record low: 10%. There aren't many institutions Americans have liked less over the last 50-or-so years, according to Gallup: Only Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, and OJ Simpson detective Mark Fuhrman have ever...

Brit Busted for Hawking the Butt of Saddam Statue

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 CST

A British company official has been arrested after auctioning a buttock section of the massive Saddam Hussein bronze statue toppled when US forces stormed Baghdad in 2003. The arrest was made after the Iraqi government issued a complaint to British police following an auction in Derby, where the two-foot hunk...

Iraq Seeks Return of Saddam's Bronze Butt

Rob Quinn — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:31:00 CST

Iraq is fighting for the return of Saddam Hussein's giant bronze buttock. The 2-foot cheek was brought back to Britain by former special-forces solder Nigel Ely, who, with the help of US Marines, pried it off a toppled statue soon after the fall of Baghdad in 2003. Iraq's government says...

Condoleezza: Saddam Was a Threat

Matt Cantor — Fri, 06 May 2011 06:30:05 CDT

Saddam Hussein “was a threat” to the US, Condoleezza Rice told Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC last night. While O’Donnell held that “Iraq had nothing to do with September 11th,” The former secretary of state argued that “after September 11th, of course you look at threats differently. Your country has just...

Osama is Time 's (Dead) Man of Year

Rob Quinn — Tue, 03 May 2011 02:20:31 CDT

In death, Osama bin Laden will be joining Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and Abu Musab al Zarqawi. Time magazine is putting out a special issue Thursday with a red 'X" over the terror kingpin's face on the cover, making him only the fourth such cover star, reports the Huffington Post...

Iraq Paved the Way for Libya

Kevin Spak — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:26:05 CDT

The uprisings sweeping across the Arab world could never have happened if we hadn’t taken out Saddam Hussein—and we ought to admit we’re trying to give Moammar Gadhafi the same treatment, writes Christopher Hitchens of Slate . “Can anyone imagine how the Arab spring would have played out if a...

Rumsfeld on Iraq's WMDs: OK, So We 'Misstated'

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:38:13 CST

You know those weapons of mass destruction that triggered the US war on Iraq? Their existence, which turned out to be nonexistent, was only "suspected," Donald Rumsfeld has finally admitted in his new book, Known and Unknown . OK, so "I made a misstatement," he says. At the time he was...

Next Up for Baron Cohen: Saddam Film

Evann Gastaldo — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:26:06 CST

If you had any doubts about Sacha Baron Cohen's love of controversy , his next role should squash them: The Borat star will play a thinly veiled version of Saddam Hussein in a comedy called The Dictator. The film is loosely based on a book, Zabibah and The King , thought to...

Saddam Sought Soviet Help in '91

Rob Quinn — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:18:40 CST

A frustrated Saddam Hussein pleaded with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for diplomatic assistance as the Operation Desert Storm ground battle began in 1991, reveal newly declassified records from Iraqi archives. The records—part of a huge archive containing millions of documents and thousands of hours of video footage captured after...