The Nation editorializes in favor of Bush-bashing music, and observes: "Hip-hop star Kanye West telescoped frustration with the White House's dawdling response to Hurricane Katrina when he told a national television audience, 'George Bush doesn't care about black people.' On his CDs West has been equally fierce, sarcastically suggesting on his 2005 song 'Crack Music' that if anyone's still got questions about Saddam Hussein's supposed chemical weapons stash, 'George Bush got the answer.'" That's not what the song says, though. Rather, it goes, "Who gave Saddam anthrax? / George Bush got the answers." This is just confused. I think what he had in mind was the Reagan administration's decision to give wink and nod approval to Saddam's use of chemical weapons (i.e., not anthrax) against Iran, weapons that, according to Lawrence Eagleburger, were acquired "primarily from western firms, including possibly a U.S. foreign subsidiary."

A more accurate hip-hop rendering of the charge comes from Immortal Technique on "Bin Laden" where he states, "And of course Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons / We sold him that s--t, after Ronald Reagan's election" which, though not totally accurate, is true in spirit. I also note that the same Kanye track appears to imply that Ronald Reagan devised crack cocaine as a ploy to "stop the black panthers" which seems unlikely since, among other things, the panthers were defunct by the time crack hit the scene.