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President Bush is the "best ally" of Osama bin Laden and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, leftist MIT professor Noam Chomsky was quoted as telling one of Japan's largest newspapers on Tuesday.
In the interview, Chomsky argued that the Iraq war "significantly increased the threat of terror,"
This war [in Iraq] was entirely unnecessary," bin Laden said in the video, according to the transcript released by the SITE Institute. "And among the most capable of those from your own side who speak to you on this topic and on the manufacturing of public opinion is Noam Chomsky, who spoke sober words of advice prior to the war, but the leader of Texas doesn't like those who give advice."
Elsewhere in the Mainichi interview, Chomsky is quoted as saying:
-- That he had predicted directly after 9/11 that governments would use the attacks "as an excuse" to intensify repression.
-- That the invasion of Iraq was a war crime.
-- That the U.S. bombed Taliban-ruled Afghanistan after 9/11 despite having no real evidence at the time that the plot had been hatched in that country.
-- That while Afghanistan today needs constructive help, including offers of alternatives to poppy cultivation by peasants, "what the West prefers to do is to bomb."
-- That "the United States is not a functioning democracy."
-- That the "first 9/11" wasn't the al-Qaeda attack in 2001 but the Sept.
11, 1973 military coup that toppled Chile's communist President Salvadore
Allende. "The effect of the first 9/11 was incomparably worse than the
second 9/11," Chomsky says. "How come nobody talks about that? Well there
is a simple reason. Because we were responsible for it."
Bush the 'Best Ally' of Bin Laden, Ahmadinejad, Professor
Says By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor September 11, 2007
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200709/CUL20070911a.html
"Kerry is sometimes described as 'Bush-lite', which is not inaccurate. But despite the limited differences both domestically and internationally, there are differences. In a system of immense power, small differences can translate into large outcomes."
"The people around Bush are deeply committed to dismantling the achievements of popular struggle through the past century no matter what the cost to the general population."
Chomsky backs 'Bush-lite' Kerry Matthew Tempest
Saturday March 20, 2004 The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1174017,00.html
For example, you can measure the number of terrorist attacks. Well, that's gone up sharply under the Bush administration, very sharply after the Iraq war.
The fact of the matter is that there is no War on Terror. It's a minor consideration. So invading Iraq and taking control of the world's energy resources was way more important than the threat of terror.
The American intelligence systems estimate that the likelihood of a "dirty bomb," a dirty nuclear bomb attack in the United States in the next 10 years, is about 50 percent. Well, that's pretty high. Are they doing anything about it? Yeah. They're increasing the threat, by increasing nuclear proliferation, by compelling potential adversaries to take very dangerous measures to try to counter rising American threats.
Take, say, the invasion of Iraq again. We're told that they didn't find weapons of mass destruction. Well, that's not exactly correct. They did find weapons of mass destruction, namely, the ones that had been sent to Saddam by the United States, Britain, and others through the 1980s.
There's basically two principles that define the Bush administration policies: stuff the pockets of your rich friends with dollars and increase your control over the world. Almost everything follows from that. If you happen to blow up the world, well, you know, it's somebody else's business. Stuff happens, as Rumsfeld said.
What gives me hope actually is public opinion. Public opinion in the United States is very well studied, we know a lot about it. It's rarely reported, but we know about it. And it turns out that, you know, I'm pretty much in the mainstream of public opinion on most issues.
'There Is No War on Terror'
An interview with Noam Chomsky. By Geov Parrish
http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0603/chomsky-transcript.html
Chomsky called the Israeli military’s defensive movement into Palestinian territories a "terrorist crime not mitigated in the least by the fact that it was to prevent a worse terrorist crime.”
Anti-Israel Movement Grows on America's Campuses
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com Thursday, May 9, 2002
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/5/8/195459.shtml
According to every leftist – from the Nation magazine to the [Noam] Chomsky fifth column – America is a land of capitalism, racism, and sexism, and the enforcer of this unholy trinity on a global scale.
'Left Illusions,' Part Five: Why the Left Opposes the
War on Terror
Paige McKenzie, NewsMax.com Monday, Dec. 8, 2003
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/12/8/163350.shtml
Former Naderites urge votes for Kerry
A raft of former Naderites have signed a petition urging voters who might be tempted to vote for the independent presidential candidate to support Democrat John F. Kerry. "We urge support for Kerry/Edwards in all swing states, even while we strongly disagree with Kerry's policies on Iraq and other issues," the petition said. "For people seeking progressive social change in the United States, removing George W. Bush from office should be the top priority in the 2004 presidential election." The more than 70 signatories include actors Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon; former talk show host Phil Donahue; academics Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Cornel West; and musicians Bonnie Raitt and Eddie Vedder. (Washington Post)
Kerry tops Bush among likely Minn. voters September
16, 2004
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/09/16/kerry_tops_bush_among_likely_minn_voters/
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