...who "played down" Saddam's atrocities.

Your very own Rummy shook the fucker's hand.

[link|http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/|http://www2.gwu.edu/.../NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/]

What does that tell us about the current administration?

Bad journalism is bad journalism, but you can't deal with things without this "left/right" thing (despite the lack of anything resembling a real left wing in American politics).

OH NOES! TEH LEFT HAVE STOLED MY MEGAHURTZ! <-- you.