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D_Raay
11-09-2004, 02:31 PM
Found this excerpt from the show...

"The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime, straight out war crime... The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy, right in the heart of the world's energy producing regions, to create, if they can, a dependent client state, to have permanent military bases, and to gain what's called 'critical leverage' - I'm quoting Zbigniew Brzezinski - to gain critical leverage over rivals, the European and Asian economies... It's been understood since the Second World War, that if you have your hand on that spigot, the source of the -world - main source of the world's energy - you have what early planners called 'veto power' over others. Iraq is also the last part of the world where there are vast, untapped, easily accessible energy resources. And you can be sure that they want the profits from that to go primarily to U.S.-based multi-nationals and back to the U.S. Treasury, and so on. Not to rivals. There are plenty of reasons for invading Iraq." – Noam Chomsky

Andrew Sullivan called him a "America hater" and claimed he was bending the truth and KNEW he was bending the truth.

yeahwho
11-09-2004, 03:53 PM
Andrew Sullivan called him a "America hater" and claimed he was bending the truth and KNEW he was bending the truth.

Noam had Andrew's number (and all the Bushite's) and he rang their doorbell. Imagine somebody actually saying we had an ulterior motive other than protecting the USofA from WMD.

Noam explained the Iraq war in 5 minutes with more truth than any other US media outlet has been able to in over a year. He just caught Andrews political idealogy in the cookie jar, that's all. :D

PS, Did you see Andrew's (http://www.dvorak.org/blog/index.php?p=700) end of show buttgrab? Classy.

D_Raay
11-09-2004, 04:20 PM
Hehe, I didn't see that before now... hilarious :D

You nailed it yeahwho, Chomsky is right on point.