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Scrapbook More Reasons to Remove Saddam For the past two weeks, the online journal Slate has been conducting an interesting dialogue among its contributors about the merits of invading Iraq, which...
...Streisand...
...From a moral standpoint, aflatoxin is the cruelest weapon—it means watching children die slowly of liver cancer.' "Spertzel went on to say that, to his knowledge, Iraq is the only country ever to weaponize aflatoxin...
...The joke among weapons inspectors is that aflatoxin would stop a lieutenant from making colonel, but it would not stop soldiers from advancing across a battlefield...
...only concessions...
...The truth...
...Even assuming that Iraq was hellbent to divert enriched uranium for the manufacture of nuclear weapons, it would have been working toward a capacity that Israel itself acquired long ago.' "Israel absorbed the world's hatred and scorn for its attack on the Osirak reactor in 1981...
...But Saddam Hussein is a figure of singular repugnance, and singular danger...
...The miniseries also failed to attract viewers, producing ratings far below those for the regular ABC programs it preempted (most of which were already low...
...I will not recite the statistics, or recount the horror stories here, except to say that I met enough barren and cancer-ridden women in Iraqi Kurdistan to last me several lifetimes...
...The argument by opponents of invasion that Saddam poses no 'imminent threat' (they never actually define 'imminent,' of course) strikes me as particularly foolhardy...
...In fact, it induces it particularly well in children...
...No rebuttals this week, though...
...Is that enough of a reason to remove him from power...
...Yes, in her remarks to the Democratic National Gala, Babs was suckered into reading a fake Shakespeare quote that has been circulating on anti-Bush websites for months...
...Looks like Ehrlich was right to worry...
...attacked the soldiers of an enemy country with chemical weapons...
...committed genocide...
...There are, of course, many repugnant dictators in the world...
...Modest, too...
...Just Thought You'd Like to Know "Peter Jennings' coffee-table book In Search of America may turn out to be a publishing disaster for Disney-owned Hyperion Books, which shipped a massive 725,000 copies to bookstores last month...
...In an advertisement that appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday [Oct...
...Or, better yet, visit Barbra's "Truth Alert," www.barbrastreisand.com/news_truth.html, which promises to rebut any falsehood that "has been written in print, spoken on radio, or aired on television about Ms...
...3 Tasteless Headline of the Year "5 SHOOTING VICTIMS REFLECT MONTGOMERY'S GROWING DIVERSITY" —Washington Post, Page A1, Oct...
...conducted biological weapons experiments on human subjects...
...Today, it is accepted as fact by most arms-control experts that, had Israel not destroyed Osirak, Saddam Hussein's Iraq would have been a nuclear power by 1990, when his forces pillaged their way across Kuwait...
...Barbra Spells Trouble The best political fight of the fall is not Torricelli against the world, but the Drudge Report vs...
...Not so Civil War Snackers in Baltimore who went to the 7-Eleven on Sept...
...a dozen or so in the Middle East alone...
...and then there is, of course, the matter of the weaponized aflatoxin, a tool of mass murder and nothing else...
...What, exactly, do Oreo cookies have to do with exploring the candidate's record...
...He must have something to worry about," she said then...
...So: Saddam Hussein is uniquely evil, the only ruler in power today—and the first one since Hitler—to commit chemical genocide...
...I'll just say there's plenty in his record for anyone to explore...
...26 needn't have bothered...
...Earlier this year, while traveling across northern Iraq, I interviewed more than 100 survivors of Saddam's campaign of chemical genocide...
...But there's been one outstanding contribution, the Oct...
...In five years, however, I believe that the coming invasion of Iraq will be remembered as an act of profound morality...
...If you believe he is trying to acquire an atomic bomb, and if you believe that he is a monstrous person, than why would you possibly advocate waiting until the last possible second to disarm him...
...Scrapbook More Reasons to Remove Saddam For the past two weeks, the online journal Slate has been conducting an interesting dialogue among its contributors about the merits of invading Iraq, which The Scrapbook highly recommends...
...These were distributed not to be hospitable, but as a racial insult directed at Ehrlich's running mate Michael Steele...
...But, she says, it was dictated...
...Barbra Streisand is a great speller, meticulous in her written communications...
...They could have gone to the NAACP-sponsored Bob Ehrlich-Kathleen Kennedy Townsend gubernatorial debate, where supporters of Townsend passed around Oreo cookies...
...And yes, her office did send a jejune memo full of misspellings to Dick "Gebhart...
...Richard Spertzel, who was the chief biological weapons inspector for UNSCOM, told me that aflatoxin is 'a devilish weapon...
...He is right, though the weapons argument, separated from Saddam's real-life record of grotesque aggression, loses its urgency...
...I do not know how any thinking person could believe that Saddam Hussein is a run-of-the-mill dictator...
...Charles Duelfer, the former deputy executive chairman of the now-defunct UNSCOM, told me earlier this year that the Iraqi admission was startling because aflatoxin has no possible battlefield use...
...3 letter from New Yorker writer Jeffrey Goldberg, portions of which we reproduce below for our friends who prefer reading hard copy: "In 1995, the government of Saddam Hussein admitted to United Nations weapons inspectors that its scientists had weaponized a biological agent called afla-toxin...
...It was published on June 9, 1981, under the headline, 'Israel's Illusion.' "'Israel's sneak attack on a French-built nuclear reactor near Baghdad was an act of inexcusable and short-sighted aggression,' the editorial states...
...Some of Townsend's supporters also booed Ehrlich's family, booed Ehrlich during his opening remarks, keyed his car, and plastered it with Townsend campaign stickers...
...Barbra Streisand...
...In a profile of Townsend two months ago, Matt Labash reported that Ehr-lich's camp feared race-baiting from the Townsend campaign...
...You can read all about it at Matt Drudge's eponymous website...
...The administration is planning today to launch what many people would undoubtedly call a short-sighted and inexcusable act of aggression...
...tried to have assassinated an ex-president of the United States...
...Its effects are far from immediate...
...Black on the outside, white on the inside—get it...
...fired ballistic missiles at the civilians of two other neighboring countries...
...They did admit, however, that they had loaded aflatoxin into two warheads capable of being fitted onto Scud missiles...
...The advertisement, which was sponsored by Common Cause, asks, in reference to the Saddam regime, 'Of all the repugnant dictatorships, why this one...
...I quoted Duelfer, in an article that appeared in the New Yorker, saying that 'we kept pressing the Iraqis to discuss the concept of use for aflatoxin.' They never came up with an adequate explanation, he said...
...After returning from Iraq, I dug out an old New York Times editorial, which I recommend people read in full...
...1], a group of worthies called upon the American people to summon the courage to question the war plans of President Bush...
...I would say yes, if 'never again' is in fact actually to mean 'never again.' "At a panel this past weekend on Iraq...
...In another apparent synergy bust, the book, priced at a whopping $50, has failed to find a significant number of buyers despite being promoted with a five-part miniseries hosted by Jennings last month...
...Richard Holbrooke, who favors regime change, said the best practical argument for Saddam's removal is the danger posed by his weapons programs...
...reported by IMDB.com, Movie and TV News, Oct...
...Because Saddam is a man without any moral limits is why it is so important to keep nuclear weapons from his hands...
...Aflatoxin, which is made from fungi that occur in moldy grains, does only one thing well: It causes liver cancer...
...harbored al-Qai-da fugitives . . . ; attacked civilians with chemical weapons...
...To review: There is no dictator in power anywhere in the world who has, so far in his career, invaded two neighboring countries...
...No one else comes close—not the mullahs in Iran, not the Burmese SLORC, not the North Kore-ans—to matching his extraordinary and variegated record of malevolence...
Vol. 8 • October 2002 • No. 5
