Noam Chomsky Interview on CBC (Part 2 of 2)

i feel sorry for chomsky having to try and reason and use logic with this incompetent muppet.

i agree, rumsfeld and cheney were incompetent.
they sucked at this thing..but we werent talking about the execution.
my heart goes out to iraqis too, who had to endure 35 years of terror and fascism and i hope they get the freedom they deserve.
again, iraq did attack us as we enacted the nofly zones.
saddam also sponsored terrorists like abu nidal who killed americans.
leon klinghoffer and john buonocore III to name 2.
i wish we had used the proper size for the army

yes exactly, if we had USED 400,000 troops as suggested by Powell and the army, I wouldve supported it because we wouldve established security and prevented al-qaeda from inflitrating the country. If they had appleid a marshall plan scenario to Iraq, I wouldve been all for it, in fact condoleeza had a great strategy that was ignored by Rumsfeld. It's not too late now, in fact i advocate putting in more troops now to rebuild the country even further since they now have a working democracy.

good im glad we agree there.
the point is, using noams logic, this was all wrong.
that is why i dont like chomsky.
he sees any continuation of this war as even more criminal.
noam is good on a lot, not here..not on iraq and afghanistan.
he complains afghanistan is illegitimate because we never declared overthrowing the taliban a war aim...
even if we had, i doubt he would have cared.
all is imperialism to him.
i dont have time for noam on foreign policy.

You want the war to be sustained? What the fuck, why? The Afghans predominately want a withdrawal with a focus on diplomacy, ie: negotiations with the Taliban.

Stupid Americans imposing their values on another society without taking the peoples' views and beliefs into consideration -_-

you support US imperialism in the Middle East? Shame. securing oil is the obvious interest, at the expense of local populations.

And NO, you seem to not understand what im saying, I SUPPORT removing totalitarian dictatorships and if the US DID it alone i would support it. But I take exception to people who SUPPORTED mass murderers then take the high ground and try to oust them and then COMPLETELY mismanage the reconstruction, causing massive deaths and infrastructure recovery. THOSE People should be tried for being complicit in the war crimes. Let's appoint people to Iraq who dont have blood on their hands, unlike CHeney

Again please address this point for me, I have already stipulated I am glad Saddam is gone and I SUPPORT REMOVAL of any dictator or corrupt regime. However, do you think Cheney and Rumsfeld should be tried for their support of Saddam when he had and used chemical weaspons? After all they were high ranking govt officials who knowingly provied him with intellience, KNOWING he would use his chemical weapons and do you agree Rumsfeld should be prosecuted for signing approval of torture procedures??

yes i am for that...
i hate cheney and rumsfeld and saddam.
im not fond of bush either, but im talking about policies...and the broad policy of overthrowing saddam is not what people like noam make it out to be.
i dont think noam would agree that the ousting of saddam was a good or just thing.
i guess we disagree...i think correcting our mistakes is a good thing.

And yes it's good Saddam was ousted, lets just agree on that opint, case closed.. and even more ironic it was done by the SAME people who supported him in the 80's (rumsfeld, cheney, etc), but w/e he's gone now. So now that he's gone lets try Rumsfeld and Cheney for war crimes when they KNOWLINGLY allowed him to use chemical weapons and gave him intelligence on iranian positions to use it. While we're at it, would you agree Rumsfeld should be prosecuted for approving torture?