Classic NY Times Article Noting that Gay Men Face Persecution and Murder in Iraq...

....post-Saddam, but failing to even mention that homosexuality was not a criminal offense during most of Saddam's regime (only near the very end, in 2001, in response to pressure from religious conservatives--the Ed Fesers of Iraq, as it were--Saddam finally criminalized homosexual sodomy, presumably as part of his general effort to court religious support for his previously secular regime).  The NY Times, of course, supported the criminal war of aggression against Iraq.