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Watching the northern branch of the now defunct Iraqi Ministry of Information, otherwise known as the CBC, is a reminder why eliminating the United Nations is as important as eliminating Saddam Hussein. A show that's being repeated on CBC's Newsworld these days is The Fifth Estate special, called "Inside the War On Iraq." It proposes to explain the war in terms of a neo-conservative conspiracy aimed at establishing American hegemony in the world. In the show's view, this has been the reason for the invasion, not ridding the world of a murderous and menacing tyranny. It was all the chilling...