145.
I reached for Conrad. My eyes lost focus.
"Keep your God damned eyes on the road!", ordered Pat.
We raced out of the city and into the desert. I turned the wheel at a branch in the road
but it did not respond. I realized the Bugatti was driving itself. Amira said it would take us
to Iraq. I wasn’t looking forward to driving into a war zone, but I wasn’t driving.
Conrad and Nanette lay unconscious in the seat next to me. Pat had staunched their bleeding and color was beginning to return to their faces. As we raced on, Pat nodded, breathed easier and began to speak. “I must tell you this now, Oliver before we reach Iraq. In the 1980’s a terrible war between Iraq and Iran was waged. The Iranian Revolution had finished the Shah and the Americans wanted revenge. When an Iraqi despot named Saddam Hussein invaded Iran in 1980, America took him under her wing. For eight years both sides threw their young men at each other in trench warfare the world had not seen since World War I. Ronald Reagan, your president who claimed it was morning in America sent one of his stooges to put a friendly arm around the stooped shoulders of Saddam. He was the special envoy to the Middle East named Donald Rumsfeld and he whispered that there were other ways to win a war than those governed by the Geneva conventions. Before long, companies in America and Europe were sending a Pandora’s Box of weapons of mass destruction to Iraq: mustard gas, tabin and sarin, cyanide, VX, white phosphorous, and biological weapons: anthrax, botulism, capsulatam, melitenis, perfungens, tetani, e coli. Even nuclear technology was supplied. All the horrors that America used as an excuse to attack Iraq were provided by America and her European allies.”
Conrad and Nanette lay unconscious in the seat next to me. Pat had staunched their bleeding and color was beginning to return to their faces. As we raced on, Pat nodded, breathed easier and began to speak. “I must tell you this now, Oliver before we reach Iraq. In the 1980’s a terrible war between Iraq and Iran was waged. The Iranian Revolution had finished the Shah and the Americans wanted revenge. When an Iraqi despot named Saddam Hussein invaded Iran in 1980, America took him under her wing. For eight years both sides threw their young men at each other in trench warfare the world had not seen since World War I. Ronald Reagan, your president who claimed it was morning in America sent one of his stooges to put a friendly arm around the stooped shoulders of Saddam. He was the special envoy to the Middle East named Donald Rumsfeld and he whispered that there were other ways to win a war than those governed by the Geneva conventions. Before long, companies in America and Europe were sending a Pandora’s Box of weapons of mass destruction to Iraq: mustard gas, tabin and sarin, cyanide, VX, white phosphorous, and biological weapons: anthrax, botulism, capsulatam, melitenis, perfungens, tetani, e coli. Even nuclear technology was supplied. All the horrors that America used as an excuse to attack Iraq were provided by America and her European allies.”
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