Michael Moore on Saddam's capture

Michael Moore on Saddam's capture

We Finally Got Our Frankenstein... and He Was In a Spider Hole! -- by Michael Moore


December 14, 2003




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).


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).

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
mmflint@aol.com
www.michaelmoore.com

Does everybody hate America on this board?

exactly

I don't think anyone here has a problem with americans, just their government and foreign policies.... same as about 75% of the rest of the world

Michael Moore is realy starting to wind me up!! Even if America did fund Saddam (which by the way he has mentioned in his last two books, CLEVER MAN!!) Iraq will be a better place now he has gone!

I like Michael Moore alot he has opened my eyes to what sort of country America is , put it this way i would much much rather be on there side then against them, they have massive global powers now even more so with there occupancy of Iraq and a very scary scary leader, god knows what he has up his sleeve next.

Well done, your a liberal, Just what this country needs.

It is all about opinions but i appreciate the facts he has brought forward about the American goverments over ther years and their involvments in certain issues, they would have you believe they are whiter than white but they have a very very dodgy past and people should be made aware of this.

Ok then what about iraq??

Men stoned to death for comiting adultrey.

Women beaten by military police for prtesting in the streets.

Not beeing allowed to vote for anyone other than Saddam.

Political rivals captured and tortured for wanting a change in goverment.

America may be bad but are tey a patch on Iraq under Saddam???

Yes but as his article says its the Americans that created this monster they have to shoulder some blame for what has happened over the years to that country, now when it suits them they decide to do something about it. take 9/11 CIA trained taliban members attack the world trade centre the Americans have associated themselves quiet willingly with to many dodge pots over the years to benfit themselves in one way or another and now its coming back to haunt them

Thats what Michael Moore said in his book! your taking his opinion and making it your own. Look in the appendix at where he got these "facts" from and try and find them yourself.

Are you saying he is making it up like ?

prove it.

Dont get me wrong, I realy enjoy Michael Moore as a light read and i enjoy reading some Anti American stuff. But i do it because im not going to base my opinions on the views of a liberal. I want all the facts.

p.s if you want a good read Ibizarules try:

Fears Empire - Benjamin R. Barber


Its quite heavy though, but still a good read.

I cannot prove it i am just going off the information he gives in "Bowling For Columbine" it may not be true i accept that but it does make alot of sense.

I will look into that book Jambon, cheers

In his books he goes on about the weakness of the Democrats and Liberals and he even goes on to tell YOU (the americans) to stand for local goverment. Well why dosent he? he's more than happy to sit in his warm office in NY City commenting on how weak these people are, he evn tells them how to do a job but WHY dosent he run for goverment???

Can anyone else see the Irony??

Without a doubt. All im trying to point out is that Saddam Hussein is better locked up or dead than he is alive and in charge of a country.