What's Happening?

[burek]

What's Happening?

 

[sandorski]

yup

 

[UltraQuiet]

Originally posted by: sandorski
yup

Agreed. The usual Chomsky bullsh!t. Two outright lies in the first paragraph and then ol' Noam just what he usually does. Makes it up as he goes along.

 

[Piano Man]

Originally posted by: burek
What's Happening?

Great read.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Ultra Quiet

Originally posted by: sandorski
yup

Agreed. The usual Chomsky bullsh!t. Two outright lies in the first paragraph and then ol' Noam just what he usually does. Makes it up as he goes along.

Just to clarify: Disagreed.

 

[TheShiz]

Originally posted by: Ultra Quiet

Originally posted by: sandorski
yup

Agreed. The usual Chomsky bullsh!t. Two outright lies in the first paragraph and then ol' Noam just what he usually does. Makes it up as he goes along.

care to point out these "outright lies"?

 

[Alistar7]

"In Kuwait and Iran people hate Saddam Hussein, but they are not afraid of him"


then why did hundreds of thousands of them purchase gas masks before we invaded?

 

[TheShiz]

Originally posted by: Alistar7
"In Kuwait and Iran people hate Saddam Hussein, but they are not afraid of him"


then why did hundreds of thousands of them purchase gas masks before we invaded?

obviously because they thought an attack by the US may provoke him to use any weapons he may have, they very well know if he uses them unprovoked, he will be go down in a matter of minutes, instead of with the war, which took maybe a week.

He mainly points that out I think to show that people in the US are more scared of Saddam than his own neighbors. Like the article says half of Americans polled believe that Iraqis were on the planes during the 9/11 attacks, which is blatantly false. Sure there are still some people that fear Saddam in the region, but overall they fear him less than Americans did, and that makes no sense.

you do know that Iraq's military was garbage right? it was a fraction of what it was in the first gulf war, and look what happened then. Iraq's neighbors are much more powerful than it was, that is why they did not fear him.

for anyone interested and anyone who doesn't really know much about Chomsky, I suggest you check out this link, instead of taking anyones opinion of him as a fact, judge for yourself after you have listened to him speak for a while. Cspan has a 3 hour video up of a really recent inverview/call in show with Chomsky.

Top link here

edit: I finished watching the program and it was good, I was really suprised that no one got through that shares a lot of people on this board's hate of Chomsky, although the interview makes mention of a recent article that attacks him. There was some really interesting questions and most of them answered quite well I thought, although there were a few people with some crazy ideas that got through. Anyway, definately worth 3 hours of your time if you want to have some things to think about dealing with the current state of the world.

 

[Alistar7]

If they were not afraid of Saddam and Americanized and sensationalized bad intelligence, why did they buy gas masks? Maybe they feared the likelyhood Saddam had and would use chemical weapons against them even though it would not even be targeting US troops.......

Saddam's danger to the west was his stockpiles and connections to terrorism, not the ability of his military to reach out and strike the US.