Michael Moore on Saddam's capture (BARF alert!)

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[SB00]

Sunday, December 14th, 2003 We Finally Got Our Frankenstein... and He Was In a Spider Hole! -- by Michael Moore

Thank God Saddam is finally back in American hands! He must have really missed us. Man, he sure looked bad! But, at least he got a free dental exam today. That's something most Americans can't get.

America used to like Saddam. We LOVED Saddam. We funded him. We armed him. We helped him gas Iranian troops.

But then he screwed up. He invaded the dictatorship of Kuwait and, in doing so, did the worst thing imaginable -- he threatened an even BETTER friend of ours: the dictatorship of Saudi Arabia, and its vast oil reserves. The Bushes and the Saudi royal family were and are close business partners, and Saddam, back in 1990, committed a royal blunder by getting a little too close to their wealthy holdings. Things went downhill for Saddam from there.

But it wasn't always that way. Saddam was our good friend and ally. We supported his regime. It wasn’t the first time we had helped a murderer. We liked playing Dr. Frankenstein. We created a lot of monsters -- the Shah of Iran, Somoza of Nicaragua, Pinochet of Chile -- and then we expressed ignorance or shock when they ran amok and massacred people. We liked Saddam because he was willing to fight the Ayatollah. So we made sure that he got billions of dollars to purchase weapons. Weapons of mass destruction. That's right, he had them. We should know -- we gave them to him!

We allowed and encouraged American corporations to do business with Saddam in the 1980s. That's how he got chemical and biological agents so he could use them in chemical and biological weapons. Here's the list of some of the stuff we sent him (according to a 1994 U.S. Senate report): * Bacillus Anthracis, cause of anthrax. * Clostridium Botulinum, a source of botulinum toxin. * Histoplasma Capsulatam, cause of a disease attacking lungs, brain, spinal cord, and heart. * Brucella Melitensis, a bacteria that can damage major organs. * Clostridium Perfringens, a highly toxic bacteria causing systemic illness. * Clostridium tetani, a highly toxigenic substance.

And here are some of the American corporations who helped to prop Saddam up by doing business with him: AT&T, Bechtel, Caterpillar, Dow Chemical, Dupont, Kodak, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM (for a full list of companies and descriptions of how they helped Saddam, click here.

We were so cozy with dear old Saddam that we decided to feed him satellite images so he could locate where the Iranian troops were. We pretty much knew how he would use the information, and sure enough, as soon as we sent him the spy photos, he gassed those troops. And we kept quiet. Because he was our friend, and the Iranians were the "enemy." A year after he first gassed the Iranians, we reestablished full diplomatic relations with him!

Later he gassed his own people, the Kurds. You would think that would force us to disassociate ourselves from him. Congress tried to impose economic sanctions on Saddam, but the Reagan White House quickly rejected that idea -- they wouldn’t let anything derail their good buddy Saddam. We had a virtual love fest with this Frankenstein whom we (in part) created.

And, just like the mythical Frankenstein, Saddam eventually spun out of control. He would no longer do what he was told by his master. Saddam had to be caught. And now that he has been brought back from the wilderness, perhaps he will have something to say about his creators. Maybe we can learn something... interesting. Maybe Don Rumsfeld could smile and shake Saddam's hand again. Just like he did when he went to see him in 1983 (click here to see the photo).

Maybe we never would have been in the situation we're in if Rumsfeld, Bush, Sr., and company hadn't been so excited back in the 80s about their friendly monster in the desert.

Meanwhile, anybody know where the guy is who killed 3,000 people on 9/11? Our other Frankenstein?? Maybe he's in a mouse hole.

So many of our little monsters, so little time before the next election.

Stay strong, Democratic candidates. Quit sounding like a bunch of wusses. These bastards sent us to war on a lie, the killing will not stop, the Arab world hates us with a passion, and we will pay for this out of our pockets for years to come. Nothing that happened today (or in the past 9 months) has made us ONE BIT safer in our post-9/11 world. Saddam was never a threat to our national security.

Only our desire to play Dr. Frankenstein dooms us all.

Yours,

Michael Moore www.michaelmoore.com

[SB00]

As if we expected anything different from Moore

[smith288]

Michael Moore... The epitome of what is wrong with the left and why they wont be taken very seriously for a while.

[prairiebreeze]

Please, somebody do the world a huge favor and put Moore into a spider hole and seal it up. Permanently.

Prairie

[.cnI redruM]

It's not just Michael Moore. I work for DA and got greeted with the following commentary from the liberal chuckle head in the cubicle next to me.

"When did the start capturing and interrogating wives and children? We are the new Soviet Union. We are the bad guys now."

[Paradox]

Whats really pathetic is that all this BS he talks about has been disproven already. Someone send him a link to Snopes.com

Somebody needs to write a book "Pathetic White Guys"...

[.cnI redruM]

And run the sewer pipe into it so that he got the results each time someone dumped and flushed.

[Maigrey]

I quit reading when I got the first DNC talking point.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

So, when Saddam was in conflict with Iran, he wasn't after oil in that nation?!

[faithincowboys]

I feel bad for Moore--it must be a bitch being such a hateful, puny punk.

[The_Victor]

America used to like Saddam. We LOVED Saddam. We funded him. We armed him. We helped him gas Iranian troops.

That would certainly explain all of his Soviet and French made hardware. What a dolt.

[Zipporah]

Make that "Pathetic Fat White Guys"

[jern]

the Arab world hates us with a passion Yea, they sure didn't hate us on 9/10/01

[iceskater]

Why did I read this heap of drivel? Why did I waste the time? I should've skipped right on by - but no, I had to read it and see what this total moron had to say. I should learn to heed the "barf alerts."

[RayChuang88]

I think all the Republicans neeed to do is to start running TV ads showing a picture of Michael Moore as the supporter of the Democrats with a few choice statements from Moore. That should drive quite a few swing voters to vote for Bush in a New York minute or faster. :-)

[MACVSOG68]

Moore spends half of the diatribe actually delineating all of the WMD materials he purchased, and admits he gassed the Iranians and the Kurds. But then he says the administration sent us to war based on a lie...

So this is what this idiot wants the Democrat candidates to say, "Yeah, he bought them, he used them, but we know he didn't have any..."

Nice trick.

[beezdotcom]

Please, somebody do the world a huge favor and put Moore into a spider hole and seal it up. Permanently.

No, no, we need this guy to keep spewing. More. Louder. We couldn't PAY for this kind of negative publicity for the liberals.

[raccoonradio]

>>But, at least he got a free dental exam today. That's something most Americans can't get.

You tell 'em, Comrade!
"In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet
Russia, Party always finds you." --Yakov Smirnov
(hey, free dental care...but there's a catch... :) )

[Nataku X]

Being in a liberal mecca, I keep hearing that Americans loved Saddam & OBL during Reagan years, Reagan armed them with WMDs, yadda yadda but have yet to see a refutation of it. Do you have a link to refutations of those allegations? Would REALLY appreciate it--thanks!

[eastsider]

"Stay strong, Democratic candidates. Quit sounding like a bunch of wusses. These bastards sent us to war on a lie, the killing will not stop, the Arab world hates us with a passion, and we will pay for this out of our pockets for years to come. Nothing that happened today (or in the past 9 months) has made us ONE BIT safer in our post-9/11 world. Saddam was never a threat to our national security."

[dirtboy]

I hope fatboy keeps this up. There will always be about 30 percent of the population who will buy into the hard-left agenda and lap up every word spewed by nimrods like Moore. But the inability of just about everyone on the left to applaud Saddam's capture and just leave it at that, if only for one day, peeled off yet another layer of moderates that might have supported the Dems in 2004. Soon enough, there will be nothing left of the Dem onion but its rotten core.