The Feud Over Saddam Hussein's Execution: Competing Versions Before; Even More Variations Now

The Times' senior Iraq reporter, John Burns, tells us the story of how the Bush Administration and the Iraqis fought for control over Saddam Hussein's execution, and the very different accounts of it being tendered now (as in the Bushies trying to pretend they had nothing to do with it when, of course, their dirty fingerprints were all over it).