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

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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Harry