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Friday, October 14, 2005

Sorry, I just can't stop myself

I know that lately I've been spending too much time on entries that refer to Salon.com, but there are so many little gems to be found there these days. Here's a great one from a long piece tracing New York Times reporter Judith Miller's supposed descent to the status of " stenographer to a motley crew of neoconservative hawks and Iraqi expatriate wheelers and dealers":
"But by the late 1990s, Miller had emerged as a hawk on the Iraq issue again. The heating up of the conflict had been provoked by the replacement of Rolf Ekeus as head of the United Nations weapons inspection team, UNSCOM, with Australian Richard Butler, who made a series of wild allegations against Iraq with little or no evidence. He demanded access to Saddam's presidential palaces in early 1998, which Saddam at that time refused. Saddam, a germophobe, is later alleged to have told his U.S. captors that he feared the U.N. inspectors would make his palaces 'dirty.'"
So, you see, there was a perfectly reasonable explanation for Saddam's refusal to allow inspection of "presidential sites," even though this violated the terms of the 1991 ceasefire and led directly to "Operation Desert Fox," four days of air strikes ordered by the not-hated-by-Salon Clinton Administration. He was afraid of germs. (I guess he figured the bombs would sterilize all the dirt they stirred up.)

In case everyone has forgotten, here's a British photo of one presidential site with a white area showing the size of Buckingham Palace and its grounds:


"Make his palaces 'dirty'"!? Does the author, a University of Michigan professor, really buy that explanation . . . from Saddam Hussein?

The tone of the quote above speaks for itself. Poor, germophobic Saddam, picked on by the unreasonable U.N. representative with his "series of wild accusations" and "little or no evidence." Come on. It really should be possible to chip away at Judy Miller without dignifying the reprehensible Saddam Hussein or defending any of the many irrational decisions he took along the path to his regime's avoidable destruction.


posted at 12:28 AM

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