"Black List One" as the US troops have been calling him, may, or at
least should, be contemplating the subpoena he can issue to summon
Donald Rumsfeld to testify about the defense secretary's trip to
Baghdad in 1983.
Cross questioning would elicit details of how Rumsfeld arrived as a
special Presidential envoy, offering full support to Saddam in his war
with Iran while simultaneously touting for the Bechtel Corporation in
connection with a proposed pipeline deal. Rumsfeld also callied a
letter from Israeli Prime Minister Itzak Shamir offering to sell arms
in any quantity to Saddam.
The deposed Iraqi leader may also have visions of summoning the
American executives who sold him the wherewithal for biological weapons
manufacture, or the U.S admirals who commanded the fleet to fight by
his side against Iranian gunboats and airliners in the Arabian Gulf in
1988,