Why Isn't Iraq in the 2008 Election? Noam Chomsky

[go west young man]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19453.htm

Well, the reasoning and the underlying attitudes carry over with almost no change to the critical commentary on the US invasion of Iraq today. And it is a land of wreck and ruin. You've already heard a few words; I don't have to review the facts. The highly regarded British polling agency, Oxford Research Bureau, has just updated its estimate of deaths. Their new estimate a couple of days ago is 1.3 million. That's excluding two of the most violent provinces, Karbala and Anbar. On the side, it's kind of intriguing to observe the ferocity of the debate over the actual number of deaths. There's an assumption on the part of the hawks that if we only killed a couple hundred thousand people, it would be OK, so we shouldn't accept the higher estimates. You can go along with that if you like.

Uncontroversially, there are over two million displaced within Iraq. Thanks to the generosity of Jordan and Syria, the millions of refugees who have fled the wreckage of Iraq aren't totally wiped out. That includes most of the professional classes. But that welcome is fading, because Jordan and Syria receive no support from the perpetrators of the crimes in Washington and London, and therefore they cannot accept that huge burden for very long. It's going to leave those two-and-a-half million refugees who fled in even more desperate straits.

[whistle]

1. Because it's the fascism stupid!

[brightsunfordimwits]

2. Its becuase democrats control the congress

Now its peaceful and surge is working, and we defeat our own bills to set deadline.

[tom_paine]

3. The surge is "working" for two reasons: 1) 1.3 million are dead, neighborhoods cleansed, no one

left to kill.

2) The Bushies are PAYING the insurgents $300/month not to kill Americans.

Hey, that strategy could have worked in DubyaDubyaTwo! Why fight the Nazis, after all, they were such good friends with the Bushies that the Bushies brought 'em over after DubyaDubyaTwo to help fight the Russians.

Plus, think of all that delicious Bushie Profit that could have been stolen back then if only we didn't have to fight the Nazis, but did what we are doing in Iraq and paying the Nazis to sit it out while our own government lies and tells us we are winning the war because the Nazis aren't fighting anymore.

You are busted, Bushie. Busted.

[noamnety]

4. kick for the morning crew (nt)