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Jon Stewart Mocks Bush’s Claims on Diplomacy

Staff / Truthdig Jul 12, 2006 "The Daily Show" host uses a montage of video clips of Bush alternately dismissing and praising the use of diplomacy in dealing with WMD-bent dictators like Saddam Hussein and North Korea's Kim Jong-Il. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Andy Borowitz: Saddam’s Trial to Continue on Mars

Andy Borowitz / Truthdig Jun 19, 2006 The political satirist writes that launching Hussein into space will achieve two of President Bush's oft-stated goals: bringing the Iraqi to justice and landing a man on Mars. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Vanity Fair: Niger Yellowcake Forgery May Have White House Ties

Staff / Truthdig Jun 7, 2006 Vanity Fair's Craig Unger reports that the Italian Secret Service likely concocted the Saddam-Niger forgery to bolster Bush's case for war. The article raises questions about the involvement of a prominent White House-connected neocon in the "black ops" campaign. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

A Spy Speaks Out

Staff / Truthdig Apr 24, 2006 The CIA's former top covert official in Europe tells "60 Minutes" the White House turned a blind eye to evidence that Saddam Hussein did not have WMDs: "The idea of going after Iraq was U.S. policy. It was going to happen one way or the other." Watch it. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Bush’s Nutty Nuclear Braggadocio

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Apr 19, 2006 "A once swaggering president, who so convincingly wielded a bullhorn and modeled a flight suit, now has assumed the pretzel pose of a supplicant attempting to cajole our old enemy in Tehran into dropping its nuclear ambitions while simultaneously initiating talks with Iran aimed at bailing us out in Iraq." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

N.Y. Times on Bush: A Bad Leak

Staff / Truthdig Apr 16, 2006 The New York Times editorial page writes that "even a president cannot wave a wand and announce that an intelligence report is declassified." Also, check out how Editor & Publisher handily took down the Washington Post editorial board's defense of the leak. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Forgers’ of Niger Uranium Contract Named

Staff / Truthdig Apr 9, 2006 Remember the uranium ore that Hussein supposedly purchased from Niger? A contract documenting the sale was used as evidence of the need to invade Iraq and was included in a 2002 U.S. State Department fact sheet on Iraq's weapons program. Remember how the IAEA denounced the documents as fakes shortly before the invasion of Iraq? Well, according to the Times Online, the forgers have finally been named. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Saddam Charged for 1980s Gassing of Halabja

Staff / Truthdig Apr 4, 2006 The Iraqi tribunal charged Hussein on Tuesday with new criminal charges -- steming from the late 1980s gassing that allegedy left 5,000 civilians dead. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Was Warned Repeatedly on Aluminum Tubes

Staff / Truthdig Mar 31, 2006 Karl Rove kept the public from knowing before the 2004 election that Bush had been apprised "directly and repeatedly" that Saddam's infamous aluminum tubes might have been for conventional--not nuclear--weapons. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Do-it-Yourself Iraqi Documents Search

Staff / Truthdig Mar 28, 2006 Now that 48,000 boxes of Arabic-language Iraqi documents captured in Iraq have hit the web, armchair analysts have their work cut out for them. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

British Memo: Bush Was Set on War

Staff / Truthdig Mar 27, 2006 The New York Times gets a closer look at a UK official's memo that indicates Bush was set on an invasion of Iraq regardless of a U.N. resolution or the outcome of the WMD issue. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Documents Show Saddam’s WMD Frustrations

Staff / Truthdig Mar 22, 2006 AP reports that Hussein and his inner circle were exasperated in their attempts during the 1990s to prove to the world that they'd given up banned weapons, according to transcripts of meetings found among documents seized after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. "We don't have anything hidden!" Saddam once interjected, documents show. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )