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2006-06-18 Home Front: Culture Wars

Chomsky Finally Wearing Out His Welcome Among Moonbats

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Posted by Slatle Chomotle5631 2006-06-18 05:29|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Chomsky is moonbatted enough for two.
The author, however uses an interesting turn of phrase:
illegal war in Iraq.
Often I hear this non-sequiter.
What is a legal war ? How many wars , importanat to the history of the world have been "legal" in whatever way they suppose this to mean ?
Firstly there was NO peace with Iraq. There was a war against Iraq to stop their blatant territorail aggression.
This war ended not with a treaty but a cease fire .
Furthere the "soveriegn" nation of Iraq was not, in that two thirds of their airspace was denied to them as "no-fly" zones and they were compelled by the UN ( leagalizer of warfare ?) to do all their busness through the UN.
Not a soveriegn nation at peace at all.
So how can it be illegal to finally finish a war that simmers for twelve years ?

Posted by J. D. Lux 2006-06-18 11:17|| 2006-06-18 11:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Thus on page 129, comparing a somewhat belated US conversion to the case for democracy in Iraq after the failure to find WMD,

The loon may see through the greater loon, but remains a loon. There was no "conversion" to a case for democract in Iraq; it was there from the fricking start. Hell, Clinton talked about it while signing the Iraqi Liberation Act in 1998.

God, I hate the leftists.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-06-18 12:00|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-06-18 12:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Thus on page 129, comparing a somewhat belated US conversion to the case for democracy in Iraq after the failure to find WMD,

Yeah, and you can't read either. Go review the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 . You might even find this little inconvenient entry -

Whereas the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-338) expressed the sense of Congress that it should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove from power the current Iraqi regime and promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime;

You know that Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 passed during your man Clinton's tenure. Gee, how did you miss it? Belated? It was in integral part of the justificiation to use force. But then again, them's facts. You don't want to disturb yourself with facts. It's all about how you feel.

Posted by Slimp Anginetle6825 2006-06-18 12:56|| 2006-06-18 12:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Nice day up here. I wonder which one of his yauchts Noamie's cruising on today?

Posted by tu3031 2006-06-18 13:00|| 2006-06-18 13:00|| Front Page Top

#5 The loon may see through the greater loon, but remains a loon.

Pretty much.

I could find no mention of the Marshall Plan...

That's because the Marshall Plan was not a humanitarian effort, but a way to boost European economies so that US manufacturers would have markets for their goods. Everyone knows that!

...but nothing about the genuine fear of the Soviet Union, one of the most brutally efficient human-rights-abusing states in history.

Any dissent in the Former Workers' Paradise was largely due to paid American agents. The Soviets were justified in putting down what amounted to a foreign invasion! [I thank Lynne Stewart for pointing this out.]

The US had nothing to fear from the Soviet Union. The USSR's military build-up was triggered by Carter's provocative rhetoric. Any bluster coming from the Soviet side was mistranslated and besides was meant for domestic consumption anyway.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2006-06-18 15:00|| 2006-06-18 15:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Any dissent in the Former Workers' Paradise was largely due to paid American agents. The Soviets were justified in putting down what amounted to a foreign invasion!

I wonder how the average Pole, Hungarian, and Czech feels about that one.

Posted by Chemble Ebbiting2232 2006-06-18 16:58|| 2006-06-18 16:58|| Front Page Top

#7 The worst monsters - Hitler, Stalin, Japanese fascists, Suharto, Saddam Hussein and many others - have produced moving flights of rhetoric about their nobility of purpose.'
I notice that NC fails to include his old mate Pol Pot in his list of monsters...

Posted by Spase Thetle7047 2006-06-18 18:19|| 2006-06-18 18:19|| Front Page Top

#8 I do find it amusing that liberals have become so unpopular that they are willing to give their yoda Chomsky the boot. He's doing too good of a job highlighting their message and it is embarrassing them. They want to go back to the days when they could pretend they were enlightened by talking nonsense and insisting the rest of us were just too dense to understand how it all made sense.

Posted by 2b 2006-06-18 18:24|| 2006-06-18 18:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Spase Thetle7047, he still hasn't apologized for supporting the bastard in the first place. He's not about to admit that a supergenius like him could possibly be wrong.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-06-18 22:35|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-06-18 22:35|| Front Page Top

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