the saddam conspiracy

Upon re-reading Mark Juergensmeyer's deftly written Saddam Conspiracy Theory in The Globalist, what made me feel so sad is that it more and more just reads like he's afraid to call it reporting, so he masks it as a conspiracy thinking: Those poor Iraqi clerics in their agency panic! Those woefully under-equipped war journalists with their paranoia! Those silly academic types in the reality-based community! Don't they understand that the newly evolved Rove-species of propaganda no longer needs to base the official account (of who built up Saddam, and who got rid of him) on history? - Thus history becomes conspiracy: when you can no longer admit there's truth to it.

Actually, it must make true conspiracy theorists weep to see their object of affection so denigrated.