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

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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

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Michael Moore

[Mr. Buzzcut]

Why can't these imbeciles understand the difference between holding our noses and siding with one devil against another versus being someone's "ally"?

We were never Saddam's ally, but he was at war with our top enemy at the time in that region.

Geopolitics really should be left up to grownups who understand the way the real world works, not porcine pikers who cannot even operate their Deal-A-Meal cards.

[Charles Henrickson]

Man, he sure looked bad!

Almost as bad as you, Michael!

[Mr. Buzzcut]

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

As well they shouldn't.

[FLAMING DEATH]

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Moore's 15 minutes are up.

[Stephen Ritter]

Nakatu, Do I hear your right? [b]Are you REALLY saying that the United States equipped Saddam with weapons of mass destruction ... chemical, biological, nuclear? [/b]

Before I delve into a point-by-point refutation of what you say, I would really like to see PROOF of America's involvement in the Iraqi WMDs. I can prove the involvement of France, Germany, and Russia in the Iraqi WMD programme (which also explains why they didn't want to give up their lucrative contracts with Saddam). But I wiil not do this until you show my one paragraph of a classified document (redacted, of course) that shows the US handing over chemical and biological weapons, and granting them access to nuclear materiel, designs for tactical nuclear weapons, and delivery systems. Pictures would be even better.

Stephen

[LurkedLongEnough]

It's twelve o'clock, and it's a wonderful day,
I know you hate me, but I'll ask anyway,
Won't you come with me, to a place in a little town,
The only way to get there's to go straight down,
There's no bathroom, and there is no sink,
The water out of the tap is very, hard to drink,
Very hard to drink,

You, wait til tomorrow,
You, wait til tomorrow,

You say that money,
isn't everything,
But I'd like to see you live without it,
You think you can keep on going
living like a king,
Oohh babe, but I strongly doubt it,

Very hard to drink,
Very hard to drink,
You gonna wait too, fat boy,
Fat boy, wait til tomorrow,
You gonna wait too, fat boy,
Fat boy, wait til tomorrow,

You, wait til tomorrow,
You, wait til tomorrow,
You gonna wait too, fat boy,
Fat boy, wait til tomorrow,
You gonna wait too, fat boy,
Fat boy, wait til tomorrow

--Silverchair, "Tomorrow"

[.cnI redruM]

Seriously. I've told him this before. The answer is enough to make you want to Chomsky your lunch into the nearest trash receptacle.

He then says that the rest of the world is more corrupt. He only stays here because it's worse elsewhere. I've told him that if I had his worldview, I'd have hanged myself with a bath towel. Liberalism grates on the nerves of any civilized man.

[concerned about politics]

This guy is in a catatonic state of no thought. He has absolutely no idea what's happinging in the real world. Maybe it's cocain.
He's one of those guys writing and reading wacked out left wing extremist web sites 24/7. He's one of those useless idiots we hear so much about, and believe it or not, some people actually listen to this loonie. LOL.
What a dork. I'll bet he voted for Gore, too.

[CaptRon]

America used to like Saddam. We LOVED Saddam. We funded him. We armed him.

I hate liars and this pig is one lying POS.

If we were Saddams arms suppliers, how come the air force that bugged out for Iran in 1991 was comprised of MiGs instead of F-16s, the DHL plane was hit with Russian RPGs instead of stingers, and the Iraqi army was armed with AK-47s not M-16s. This BS has been propagated for years with no proof.

[marty60]

Why do Fascist,Socialist,Comie, Evil Dums continue to display their total ignorance. The old saying "Fools names,like fools faces are seen in public places", must have bee said to describe Dumocrats.

[fightu4it]

Come to think of it, if you would volunteer to hump your lard #ss over the mountains of Afganistan in an effort to find him you might come back looking like human being instead of Jabba.

[N. Theknow]

An extra bowlful of stupid flakes with a glass of rant juice this AM for the liberal blivet.

[N. Theknow]

Michael Moore www.michaelmoore.com = The Mother of all Idiots.

[concerned about politics]

. Do you have a link to refutations of those allegations? Would REALLY appreciate it--thanks!

I don't have a link because I don't feel like searching for one, but at the time Iran was more dangerous to us. They had our soldiers hostage. We used Saddam.
After that, he eventually let his own power go to his head.

[katykelly]

I try to heed "barf alerts". Just skip the rant and scroll down to replies. Kudos to the those that have the stomach to read the whole thing.

[Nataku X]

No, I'm just repeating what my friends said (they basically say the same thing that Michael Moore is repeating in the above tripe). I'm sure that it's all BS, but I'm having a hard time finding a refutation to Moore's claims and my friends' claims because Google searches only bring up left-wing wacko sites.

It'd be nice if someone could create a PDF debunking all these outrageous lies like one Freeper created that wonderful PDF debunking the completely false "Bush's Resume" that was circulating a few months ago.

[in the Arena]

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.

I can't quite figure that paragraph out...

...they hate us with a passion...Saddam was never a threat...huh ?

[4CJ]

BWAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahaha!