Want more sides of the story? Here's the Iraqi news agency's home page featuring a spiffy official biography of Saddam Hussein, which includes this sentence in which every word is a lie except for "the", "and", and "on".

(Saddam) Led the Iraqi people an army wisely and bravely against the aggression initiated and launched against Iraq by Khomeini' s regime on September 4, 1980, which ended in Iraq 's great victory on August 8, 1988.

Or check out this one, which manages to avoid using the word "Kuwait".

Led his country in confrontation the aggression launched by 33 countries led by US. which waged war against Iraq, the Iraqis' confrontation of which is called by Arabs and Iraqis as the Battle of Battles (Um Al-Ma' arik) , where Iraq stood fast against the invasion, maintaining its sovereignty and political system.