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We Finally Got Our Frankenstein...
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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, go
here http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/23/news-crogan.php).

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 (see the photo here http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/).

Maybe we never would have been in the situation we're in if Rumsfeld, Bush Sr. and co 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

<mailto:mmflint@aol.com> mmflint@aol.com
http://www.michaelmoore.com/> www.michaelmoore.com

For a look back to the better times of our relationship with Saddam Hussein, see the following:

Patrick E. Tyler, http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0818-02.htm
Officers say http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0818-02.htm U.S.
aided Iraq http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0818-02.htm in war despite use of gas, New York Times, August 18, 2002.

http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/medsearch/FocusAreas/riegle_report/report/report_index.htm
U.S. Chemical and Biological Warfare-Related Dual Use Exports to Iraq and their possible impact on health consequences of the Gulf
War," 1994 Report by the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affiars.

William Blum's cover story in the April 1998 issue of The Progressive, "Anthrax for Export."
http://www.progressive.org/0901/anth0498.html

Jim Crogan's April 25-May 1, 2003 report in the LA Weekly,
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/23/news-crogan.php Made in the
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/23/news-crogan.php USA
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/23/news-crogan.php , Part III: The Dishonor Roll.


http://www.fas.org/man/gao/gao9498.htm> Iraq: U.S. military items exported or transferred to Iraq
http://www.fas.org/man/gao/gao9498.htm in the 1980s, United States General Accounting Office, released February 7, 1994.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52241-2002Dec29?language=printer

U.S. had key role in Iraq buildup; trade in chemical arms allowed despite their use on Iranians and Kurds," Washington Post,
December 30, 2002.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52241-2002Dec29?language=printer


http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/iraqgate/iraqgate.html Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/iraqgate/iraqgate.html policy and the prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980-1994," The
National Security Archive, 2003



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