Creating Saddam: How America helped create a monster?

MSNBC ^ | September 15, 2002 | Newsweek

[ejdrapes]

Saddam Hussein in 1959 (left) and nearly four decades later, in 1998

How Saddam Happened

America helped make a monster. What to do with him—and what happens after he’s gone—has haunted us for a quarter century

By Christopher Dickey and Evan Thomas
NEWSWEEK

Sept. 23 issue —  The last time Donald Rumsfeld saw Saddam Hussein, he gave him a cordial handshake. The date was almost 20 years ago, Dec. 20, 1983; an official Iraqi television crew recorded the historic moment.

[ChadGore]

What's that on his upper lip ?
Is that a mustache ?
No!
It's Bin Laden public hair.

[VOA]

How Saddam Happened
America helped make a monster.

IF the US Senators of The Democratic Party hadn't given George Herbert Walker Bush
the third-degree while assembling Desert Storm...
IF George Herbert Walker Bush hadn't been forced to go beg the UN to do the right thing,
along with building a coalition...
AND IF George Herbert Walker Bush hadn't had Colin Powell begging Pres. Bush
to call off the dogs (spare Sadaam)...

we wouldn't be having this conversation.

[D-fendr]

If MSNBC had been around fifty years ago, they'd be doing the story:

Creating Stalin: How America helped create a monster.

[Arthur McGowan]

If MSNBC had been around fifty years ago, they'd be doing the story:
Creating Stalin: How America helped create a monster.

And it would be a story worth telling: How, as WWII wound down, the demonic FDR handed over the Christian nations of Eastern Europe to Stalin on a silver platter, resulting in the martyrdom of millions of Christian Europeans, while the Christian-hating Left of the West kept silent about Communist atrocities through decades of Cold War.

[The Great Satan]

LASHING OUT?

As the Bush administration prepares to oust Saddam, one way or another, senior administration officials are very worried that Saddam will try to use his WMD arsenal. Intelligence experts have warned that Saddam may be “flushing” his small, easy-to-conceal biological agents, trying to get them out of the country before an American invasion. A vial of bugs or toxins that could kill thousands could fit in a suitcase—or a diplomatic pouch. There are any number of grim end-game scenarios. Saddam could try blackmail, threatening to unleash smallpox or some other grotesque virus in an American city if U.S. forces invaded. Or, like a cornered dog, he could lash out in a final spasm of violence, raining chemical weapons down on U.S. troops, handing out his bioweapons to terrorists. “That’s the single biggest worry in all this,” says a senior administration official. “We are spending a lot of time on this,” said another top official.

Some administration critics have said, in effect, let sleeping dogs lie. Don’t provoke Saddam by threatening his life; there is no evidence that he has the capability to deliver weapons of mass destruction. Countered White House national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice, “Do we wait until he’s better at it?” Several administration officials indicated that an intense effort is underway, covert as well as overt, to warn Saddam’s lieutenants to save themselves by breaking from the dictator before it’s too late. “Don’t be the fool who follows the last order” is the way one senior administration official puts it.

Inasmuch as the only "bug" or biological weapon we know for certain Saddam has is Anthrax, it's funny how the author seems to be falling over himself not to mention the "A" word here. Hmm, I wonder why that could be?

[Higgymonster]

Just yesterday I commented about an article in a little local newspaper about a refugee from Viet Nam that came to this country and helped create the bomb that may be the one that got OBL. What no national publicity? They would only give it national publicity if they interpreted it that we had created something bad. And, shazam, here it is. If you'd like to read the good one.....

http://www.sunspot.net/news/custom/attack/bal-te.bz.bomb04aug04.story?coll=bal-attack-headlines

[D-fendr]

That story would be: How American Communist and Leftists appeased the Soviet Empire and ignored its attrocities", not "How America created the monster Stalin."

[Arthur McGowan]

A Commie Leftist (or rather, a patrician egoist whose administration was riddled with Commies) was President, 1933-1945, and thus it would be accurate to say that "America" (i.e., American policy) built up Stalin.

[Jeff Chandler]

If President Peanutbrain hadn't stabbed the Shah of Iran in the back, none of this would have happened. The genesis of Radical Islam's rise can be attributed to Jimmy.