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

[Nataku X]

Good observations. Having lived in both the Bible belt and in DUmmycratland, I can confirm that the "black and white" mentality is much stronger in the Left than in the Right, as much as the Left would like to deny it.

[Dane]

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

I was thinking of the Lincoln tunnel, but even that might be a tight fit.

[Nataku X]

Good one! :)

[OpusatFR]

We also liked King George at one time, but you know how that went.

[prairiebreeze]

I couldn't disagree more with your premise that Moore and his ilk are "harmless".

Prairie

[DCBryan1]

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.

This idiot just doesn't know when to shut up, he destroyed ANY CREDIBILITY he thought he had with those two (2) sentences.....

Too bad Michael Moore, 85% of the American people do NOT buy your lies....the other 15% are Democrats losing their grip on reality (and power).

[liberallarry]

Didn't Kissenger say that our interests would be best served if the Iraqis and Iranis destroyed each other?
The trouble with Moore is that he thinks the world was once a nice place in which oil rained from heavan right into our fuel tanks.

[Blzbba]

"It's not that they can't. They simply choose not to!"


You're implying that people should take responsbility for their own actions, which is 100% against the Democratic ideals of today.

[cwb]

Here is one of the articles I saved from Google:

"As someone who has bought things from the American Type Culture Collection, although a long time ago, and has some experience with large-scale microbiology, I take a somewhat less conspiratorial view of this news coverage.

ATCC is essentially a library of microorganisms, widely used in biological sciences. It's not a secret organization. It's perfectly reasonable for medical institutions to want samples of disease-causing organisms for legitimate research. Appropriately, there has been a lot more restrictions placed recently on obtaining organisms known, or believed, to be useful in biological warfare.

To wage biological warfare, one needs:
    1. An appropriate agent
    2. A means of mass culture
    3. A dispersion/warhead system
    4. A delivery system

Not all organisms, and in fact a minority of them, will work in biological weapons. They may be too fragile, or not have other characteristics needed to make weapons. Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, is one that is known to work, although a deliverable bioweapon is more complex than just dumping out a bag of bacteria. Remember these are living organisms, and the heat of a dispersing explosion, friction through spray jets, etc., can cook them.

Anthrax does occur in nature, and in fact has other names such as woolsorters' disease. Clinical laboratories may want samples for comparison. I'm not suggesting the Iraqis didn't order some of these things for non-innocent reasons, but I am suggesting that the exporters may not have had reasons to be suspicious at the time of orders.

So to say US companies shipped biological warfare materials to the Iraqis is not quite the same as what was done. An organism is a starting point only. Mass culture/fermentation equipment, unfortunately, has perfectly legitimate industrial uses as well. The dual use problem strikes here far more than in nuclear or chemical controls.

Just as miniaturizing a nuclear weapon is not a trivial task, the actual dispersion techniques from biological programs are some of the first things that clearly would be weapons technology."

[thesummerwind]

But, at least he got a free dental exam today

I thought maybe they were swabbing for a DNA sample. Eh?

[Blzbba]

"He said France. I reminded him France was our best ally against Britian in one of those wars. "


I agree with your implication above: We should Attack France immediately!

[Cubs Fan]

Not a real good time for the left these days. A great economy, with lower unemployment expected to follow, and now we have Saddam, probably some WMD info soon to follow.

[Blzbba]

"I couldn't disagree more with your premise that Moore and his ilk are "harmless". "


Naaa. Moore's a harmless, fat jackass of a windbag. Please tell me how this blubbery moron is a threat, and what kind of threat he is.

[Terry Mross]

"Weapons of mass destruction. Yes, he has them. We gave them to him". Then he says "Bush sent us to war on a lie." Well, fat slob? Which is it?

As for us propping him up, that's the American way. I sometimes don't like it but the simple fact is sometimes we must help one evil bastard so we won't have to deal with a more evil bastard.

[Smokin' Joe]

Awwwww c'mon. The whole liberal gig is based on guilt for doing well, anger for not doing well, or greed and not doing at all.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

But, at least he got a free dental exam today

I thought maybe they were swabbing for a DNA sample. Eh?

Good point. As if the condition of his molars is of any concern to us.

[thesummerwind]

That's what I'm here for. ;)

Another thought, we may have been looking for the old cyanide pill, too. (not?)

[liberallarry]

Nakatu is only repeating what his liberal friends are telling him. It's Moore - in this article - who states that we supplied Saddam with a whole list of toxic substances which, presumably, could be or were used in chemical and/or biological WMD.

His source is an unamed and unlinked 1994 Senate report - which I would dearly love to see.

[cwb]

As someone else pointed out, that so-called dental exam was also a search for cyanide, which cowards have the habit of hiding in between their ckeeks and gums.

[liberallarry]

Great post.

I wondered why Moore didn't name or link that 1994 Senate report which he listed as the source for his claims. Perhaps you know how to access it? I'd dearly love to read it.