Saddam's Secrets: How an Iraqi General Defied and Survived Saddam Hussein
BennyHollywood (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
http://www.alternet.org/media/143731/many_still_believe_that_saddam_hussein_was_... President Obama has had a hard time dislodging misperceptions about his health care proposal — those stubborn beliefs that there are death panels and free care for illegal aliens that don't actually exist in the legislation.
Alternet (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Researchers looking at beliefs about al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein have made some surprising discoveries about why peopl
Alternet (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Researchers looking at beliefs about al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein have made some surprising discoveries about why peopl
Gorillas Guides (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is still obsessed with former leader Saddam Hussein and his Baath party despite his decision to have Saddam executed and his party banned for ever. In latest remarks, he is reported to have said that “some regional” states would like to see the Baath party reinstated in power in Iraq. And [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Saddam Hussein planned to escape from his USrun prison in 2006 with the help of loyalists including former bodyguards according to a book written by one of his lawyers.
FP Passport (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Najaf is apparently not a friendly place for people named Saddam Hussein these day: On last week's edition of Radio Free Iraq 's weekly call-in show, "Open Windows," host Ferial Hussein spoke to a caller named Saddam Hussein, who complained that he has been facing discrimination and employment problems in Iraq due to his name. Internally displaced from Diyala to Najaf , Saddam told Ferial...
It is all about our life (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
F ew days ago I heard in the news on Al- Arbia satellite channel that a channel named " Saddm Hussein" is about to be launched. What the heck!! Is that going to be his ghost haunting Iraqis? Why do they believe that his ideas and thoughts were over the perfect and should be followed? They are making him an Idol...I laugh when I remember how Ezzat Eldori ; former vice president was scared...
Theodore's World (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Telegraph.co.uk Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park, were given a signed photo of Saddam Hussein by US marines after the former Iraqi leader was shown their movie in prison. During his captivity, US marines forced...
Berman Post (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Saddam Hussein was repeatedly forced to watch The South Park Movie "South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut", while being held in captivity. What is the appropriate reaction here; outrage, laughter, bewilderment...? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5122031/South-Park-creators-given-signed-photo-of-Saddam-Hussein.html " Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
From Glenn Beck's Arguing with Idiots , p. 225: Franklin Delano Roosevelt "He was elected four times, obviously he was popular!" FDR is anpther president who is inexplicably ranked near the top of many "best presidents ever" polls. The fact that he is the only president to ever be elected four times is oft cited as proof of his popularity, and popularity, as we all know, always...
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
An Iraqi civilian who died in British military custody was "happy" when UK forces invaded Iraq in 2003, his father told a public inquiry today.
Out Gay Life (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
What do Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein and AIDS all have in common? According to one new advertising campaign, launched in the lead up to World AIDS Day on December 1, it's the fact that all four are mass murderers. And each time someone engages in unsafe sex, it's like getting down and dirty in the bedroom with the likes of the Third Reich. Provocative? Check. Certain to attract attention? Check....
Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
St. Louis, MO - Five years ago Robert Ellis got tasked with the oddest assignment of his life: keep Saddam Hussein alive. Ellis, a 59-year-old surgical nurse at Barnes Jewish Hospital, had just arrived in Iraq for a tour with the U.S. Army. Now retired, Ellis was then a master sergeant reservist with the 301st Combat [...]
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
Would you people please subscribe to Atlantic Monthly so the editors don't regret putting that year-old Andrew Sullivan email to George W. Bush on the cover? [Daily Dish] Just like the DC Madame, Christoper Kelly weighed his options. Should he cooperate with the authorities and maybe serve a little jail time? ...
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