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To: Thomas M. who wrote (5516)	1/18/2004 5:41:43 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6945

It does not bode well when the United States' Government goes down the same foreign affairs road of the inept British. At least the British were smart enough to see that they did not want to be blamed for the establishment of the state of Isra'El. Unfortunately, they surely gummed up the whole affair before they fled a situation they could or would not control. len

To: Thomas M. who wrote (5516)	1/18/2004 9:18:16 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

It's always interesting to pick out the ways Chomsky lies and misleads in his essays. At the time, Washington and its allies held the "strikingly unanimous view (that) whatever the sins of the Iraqi leader, he offered the West and the region a better hope for his country's stability than did those who have suffered his repression," That is only the opinion of the leftwing journalist, Alan Cowell, not an established fact. Here Chomsky is merely quoting a fellow leftist, not stating a fact. For example, the Bush administration's original reason for going to war in Iraq was to save the world from a tyrant developing weapons of mass destruction and cultivating links to terror. Nobody believes that now, not even Bush's speechwriters. The new reason is that we invaded Iraq to establish a democracy there and, in fact, to democratize the whole Middle East. Actually both were reasons for the war from the beginning. Chomsky is being misleading again. As the State Department official responsible for Asian affairs under Reagan, Wolfowitz oversaw support for the murderous dictators Chun of South Korea and Marcos of the Philippines. Chomsky probably knows his gullible poorly educated readers will likely not know or remember that SK and the Philippines both made transitions to democracy during Reagan's administration. Lie by omission. Ok that's enough for one session.