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| U.S. Dissident Says Bush Needs Fear for Reelection |
| 2003-10-30 |
| Havana, Reuters, Chomsky...this piece has everything! HAVANA (Reuters) - U.S. linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky said on Wednesday that President Bush will have to "manufacture" another threat to American security to win reelection in 2004 after U.S failure in occupying Iraq. Quick! Somebody call the Mossad! The CIA! Halliburton! Skull and Bones! We need another threat! Pronto! Chomsky, attending a Latin American social sciences conference in Cuba, said that since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, the Bush administration had redefined U.S. national security policy to include the use of force abroad, with or without U.N. approval. No shit!? Wow, now I know why this guy’s considered a genius! "It is a frightened country and it is easy to conjure up an imminent threat," Chomsky said at the launching of a Cuban edition of a book of interviews published by the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, when asked how Bush could get reelected. "They have a card that they can play ... terrify the population with some invented threat, and that is not very hard to do," he said. Those buildings coming down on 9/11? They were invented? What were they, holagrams? After the "disaster" of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Bush could turn his sights on Communist-run Cuba, which his administration officials have charged with developing a biological weapons research program, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of linguistics said. Nah, we’re too busy planning to nuke North Korea, Syria, Iran, Aruba, Barbados, Greenland, etc. Noam. By the time we get to Cuba, El Jefe will be dead and it’ll be a moot point. Chomsky said the military occupation of Iraq, to topple a "horrible monster running it but not a threat to anyone," was a failure. He fed on his own. What’s the big deal? "The country had been devastated by sanctions. The invasion ended sanctions. The tyrant is gone and there is no outside support for domestic dissidence," he said. "It takes real talent to fail in this endeavor." Nice quote. Very...."linguistical". Chomsky said it was reasonable to assume the Bush administration would try to "manufacture a short-term improvement in the economy" by incurring in enormous federal government debt and "imposing burdens on future generations." The Bush administration was a continuation of the Ronald Reagan presidency that declared a national emergency over the threat posed by Nicaragua’s leftist government in the 1980s, he said. That worked out all right. What’s your buddy, Danny Ortega up to these days, Noam? Gonna see him on your little tour? "The same people were able to present Grenada as a threat to survival of the United States the last time they were in office," Chomsky said, in reference to the U.S. invasion of the Caribbean island in 1983 to thwart Cuban influence. Which I believe ALSO worked. With no devastating long term effects. You gotta do better then this, Noam. Chomsky, a Give El Jefe a big kiss for us, willya, Noam? The author of "Language and mind," "Manufacturing Consent," "Profit Over People" and "9-11" said the Bush administration was out to dominate the world by the use of military force if need be, and Iraq was the first test. BWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAA! Chomsky criticized Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar for backing the United States and Britain in invading Iraq under a false pretext that the Arab country possessed weapons of mass destruction. Yawn.... Chomsky praised Cuba’s defiance of U.S. hostility and trade sanctions for four decades. But he also criticized the jailing of 75 Cuban dissidents earlier this year by Castro’s government. "Yes, I have criticized them for that," he said in an interview on August 28 with Radio Havana. "I think it was a mistake." But I didn’t say it too loudly. Might make one of my heroes not like me anymore. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #14 OW, roger your last. My brain-fart. I should've had my facts together. I assumed incorrectly that he'd be for a humanitarian mission that had absolutely nothing to do w/our national security and that was set in motion by Clinton. What was his beef w/going there besides hating us? |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-10-30 10:44:18 PM |
| #13 Damn Shipman--as a Lib I can get us past the velvet rope at NY'er! |
| Posted by: NotMikeMoore 2003-10-30 10:29:30 PM |
| #12 Anyone read The New Yorker article about him last month? LOL. No one goes there anymore.... it's too crowded. (And they wouldn't let me in) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-10-30 10:06:15 PM |
| #11 Anyone read The New Yorker article about him last month? He's kinda over-exposed, boring intellectual type that has bullshitted his way to a major career..yup..even liberals grow tired of crap like his.... |
| Posted by: NotMikeMoore 2003-10-30 10:00:13 PM |
| #10 Pretty much any movement by the U.S. military is an outrage for him. Wish that sucker could spend a few days watching the CSX mainline. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-10-30 8:24:35 PM |
| #9 Jarhead- Actually Chomsky complained about Kosovo too. It just wasn't as interesting for the mainstream media back then. Pretty much any movement by the U.S. military is an outrage for him. |
| Posted by: OminousWhatever 2003-10-30 4:59:24 PM |
| #8 Nom |
| Posted by: Atrus 2003-10-30 3:03:02 PM |
| #7 Another hate-America fruitloop mouthpiece that couldn't recognize the truth if it bit him on the nose. If I had a dollar for every time this nutbag has been wrong, I could BUY California - not that I'd really want to... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-10-30 1:31:11 PM |
| #6 I can't read this shit or I'll through my computer out the window. Arrrrrgggghhhh! |
| Posted by: Spot 2003-10-30 1:30:30 PM |
| #5 I stopped dead cold once I saw "Noam". |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-10-30 1:01:03 PM |
| #4 I'm still waiting for that silent genocide of millions of Afghanistani's that Chomsky promised. Combined with his whitewashing of the Pol Pot genocide I find it hard to credit Chomsky's word on anything. The world is upside down in his twisted mind. |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-10-30 12:15:55 PM |
| #3 Chomsky said the military occupation of Iraq, to topple a "horrible monster running it but not a threat to anyone," was a failure. Yea if your not Iraqi, Jewesh, Persian, Arab, American if he could, and basically all of Europe..... Hope you like it there - we may be seeing you in the future. |
| Posted by: Dan 2003-10-30 9:42:08 AM |
| #2 "Chomsky, attending a Latin American social sciences conference in Cuba," -Chumpsky at the great commie jamboree - sounds like a real hoot. "said that since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, the Bush administration had redefined U.S. national security policy to include the use of force abroad, with or without U.N. approval." -actually President Clinton did that before GWB in Kosovo. I don't recall Chumpsky whining about that. "The same people were able to present Grenada as a threat to survival of the United States the last time they were in office," -Nice try; the threat was actually to Americans living in Grenada not Grenada to the U.S. He also fails to mention the battalion of Cuban soldiers that were building air fields and a base in Grenada at the time which we eliminated. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-10-30 9:28:25 AM |
| #1 Note how Chomsky thinks it's a "mistake." Not morally wrong, but a mistake. Fuck you Noam, stay there. And that's a nice whitewashing of Grenada, too. But you might come to expect it from a guy who wrote 400 pages on Israel-Palestine but didn't mention the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (and his address during WWII). |
| Posted by: Brian (MN) 2003-10-30 9:14:21 AM |