saddam hussein
The George W. Bush Museum is Just as Infuriating as You Think it is
Baby Bush was a great president. According to his own museum, that is.
The Hangover News
This weekend, a Lebanese restaurant pissed people in Harrow off with a Saddam Hussein poster.
The Devastating Chemical Attack in Iraqi Kurdistan 25 Years Later
It’s been 25 years, seven months, six days, and around five hours since Saddam Hussein’s bombs rained down on Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan. We met some of the victims and explored the town.
The World's Most Depressing Museum Is in Iraq, of Course
Most cities have monuments to the past, so it seems appropriate, given the bloody history of Iraqi Kurdistan, that Sulaymaniyah's main tourist attraction is a museum devoted to documenting torture and injustice.
It Is Absolutely NOT Confirmed That George Galloway Will Be Running for London Mayor
We met the Respect MP at his Westminster office to discuss Blair, the nuances of "lovemaking" and the potential for change in UK politics.
Are Chemical Weapons Actually Useful in a War?
Bashar Assad gave the US an excuse to enter the war when he used chemical weapons against the Syrian rebels trying to overthrow him, but in this day and age such weapons aren't very effective ways of killing people.
High Dives and Manicures at Saddam's Presidential Palace
One morning in Iraq in 2003, our battalion chaplain came to our small firebase in Baghdad and told us that he had to go to one of Saddam’s palaces for meetings and wanted to take a couple of infantry squads with him so we could enjoy the facilities. He...
Mem'ries: Fighting Fires in a Burning Kuwaiti Oil Field
When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, he set in motion a political conflict that resulted in a devastating man-made environmental catastrophe. He had sworn that if he was "evicted from Kuwait by force, then Kuwait will be burned," and it turned...
In Saddam's Shadow
Ten years after the US invasion of Iraq, VICE founder Suroosh Alvi returns to Baghdad to see how the city is doing. We meet a biker gang that misses Saddam, a gay activist, the metal band Dog Faced Corpse, and members of the Iraqi military whose bomb...
In Saddam's Shadow
VICE founder Suroosh Alvi returns to Baghdad ten years after the US invasion. In the fourth and final part of the documentary, we learn about the ADE 651, a small device the Iraqi military uses at checkpoints to detect bombs in cars. Problem is, these...
I Spoke to the 'Human Shields' Who Drove to the Iraq War in London Buses
Remembering the activists ten years on.
In Saddam's Shadow - Part 1
Ten years after the US invasion of Iraq, we return to Baghdad to see how the city is doing. VICE founder Suroosh Alvi gets a tour of a city that used to be covered nonstop in the American media, but now seems to be somewhat forgotten.