At Simon’s request, am guestblogging on a matter of some considerable seriousness; the conspiracy to take control of Iraq. Dr. Michael E Salla, formerly an assistant professor at American University (his cv is here) reveals the full depths of the perfidious American plan in an academic paper, available here. Apparently, the Western Media Conspiracy has covered up the real story on Iraq. There’s a Stargate, hidden somewhere in the Mesopotamian ruins, and the aliens are about to come back through it. Saddam has been trying to save it for the rest of the world – killing a few hundred thousand on the way – but small beer given the prize at stake) while the US want to take it over as part of their plan for world domination. You read it here first … Salla seems to have been a serious academic at one stage. Perhaps he still is – this could be some nasty prank or something on the part of third parties to discredit him. Which is perhaps a plot too on the part of Unknown Third Parties.