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According to a new book by Washington Post reporter John F. Harris, Hillary Clinton taunted her husband’s staffers for not being tough enough. “JFK had real men in his White House!” she said. Yeah, and lots of women, too.

The London tabloid the Sun is perhaps best known for the young ladies who appear on Page Three, wearing very little. It recently published a revealing shot of a different sort-a picture of Saddam Hussein in his ill-fitting prison undies, whereupon comment ensued. In the Internet age, everything truly is a sieve, and war planners must plan accordingly. If you don’t want the world to see it, don’t do it. But is there in truth a downside to Saddam’s exposure? Perhaps we offended some Iraqi Sunnis, the most sensitive people on earth (where were their sensibilities when Saddam and his sons were gassing and raping?). Normal Iraqis were probably heartened by the sight. The picture of the Nuremberg defendants in their ill-fitting suits was one more layer of gilt scraped off the idol of Nazism. Going, going, soon to be gone.

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According to a new book by Washington Post reporter John F. Harris, Hillary Clinton taunted her husband’s staffers for not being tough enough. “JFK had real men in his White House!” she said. Yeah, and lots of women, too.

The London tabloid the Sun is perhaps best known for the young ladies who appear on Page Three, wearing very little. It recently published a revealing shot of a different sort-a picture of Saddam Hussein in his ill-fitting prison undies, whereupon comment ensued. In the Internet age, everything truly is a sieve, and war planners must plan accordingly. If you don’t want the world to see it, don’t do it. But is there in truth a downside to Saddam’s exposure? Perhaps we offended some Iraqi Sunnis, the most sensitive people on earth (where were their sensibilities when Saddam and his sons were gassing and raping?). Normal Iraqis were probably heartened by the sight. The picture of the Nuremberg defendants in their ill-fitting suits was one more layer of gilt scraped off the idol of Nazism. Going, going, soon to be gone.