Stephen Hayes reports that Saddam bought off a lot more politicians and journalists than just George Galloway. We knew it, just not the specifics. I've always thought there was something hypocritical about journalistic "ethics" that cavil at trying to save lives but allow living in hotels and reporting from under the thumb of government minders. It's all kosher because they told us they were being censored. But Eason Jordan's confession shows how slippery that slope is.

I'm still waiting for the facts about Chirac's payoffs to surface. None of the explanations for his "diplomacy" make sense to me so far, but a need to cover up payments to him personally from Saddam would.