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Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 11:03 PM

Subject: We Finally Got Our enstein... and He Was In a Spider Hole -- by

We Finally Got Our enstein... and He Was In a Spider Hole! -- by

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. enstein. 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 enstein whom we (in part) created.

And, just like the mythical enstein, 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 enstein?? 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. enstein dooms us all.

Yours,

mmflint@...

www.michaelmoore.com

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

see the following:

E. Tyler, " Officers say U.S. aided Iraq in war despite use of gas, New

York Times, August 18, 2002.

" 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.

Blum's cover story in the April 1998 issue of The Progressive,

" Anthrax for Export. "

Jim Crogan's April 25-May 1, 2003 report in the LA Weekly, " Made in the USA,

Part III: The Dishonor Roll. "

" Iraq: U.S. military items exported or transferred to Iraq in the 1980s, "

United States General Accounting Office, released February 7, 1994.

" 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.

" Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. policy and the prelude to the Persian Gulf

War, 1980-1994, " The National Security Archive, 2003