Zim > ...Was just harmless pesticides.
And all those Russian Convoys heading North and South, were just relocating embassy personnel and their belongings. And all those foreign nuclear scientists were just visiting sunny Baghdad for the lovely atmosphere. And the tiny amount of uranium ore was all for fueling medical devices.
Hyup.
Kurgman, not Krugman - is satire. However, not in the conventional sense. Satire is usually an exaggeration of truth, or a ridiculous (and obvious) distortion of truth. In this case, the article was nothing but actual truth of what the REAL Krugman actually spews, with little, if any of those two humorous characteristics. Yes - it WAS humorous, because truth is many times funnier than fiction.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good ...