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Today on Flashpoints:
A Freewheeling Conversation with Radical British Parliamentarian
Tony Benn; A New Lecture by Noam Chomsky on the US Global
War of Terror (Washington DC, June 2003. )
5:01 PM PST
"When you look at the Iraqi War, it was an armed robbery.
The country was invaded, it was to get hold of the oil which
in now taken over. Now the multinational corps have been invited
to come in and buy up the Iraqi economy and export their profits.
The thing now looks as it could be not exactly a Vietname
War, but an ongoing Intifada... With body bags coming back,
the $87 billion demand for money... I don't think it is going
to work out. In the context of international law and the charter
of the UN it is absolutely clear the war is illegal".
This and more insights from Tony Benn on the US and Britain's
role in the illegal invasion and occupation. For more Tony
Benn viewpoints: his
books and his
biography.
Noam Chomsky starts with 9/11 and disects the US intention
to dominate the world by force. It made it clear it would
use this not only to control the world, but to destroy any
challenge to equal or oppose this force... "The US had
announced a grand strategy that begins with a fundamental
commitment to maintaining a unipolar world. in which the US
has no peer competitor, a condition that is to remain permanent,
so that no state or coalition will ever challenge the US".-
Foreign Affairs John Eikenberry. Chomsky's views on US waging
terror. Links:
Noam Chomsky Biography , Books by Noam
Chomsky. and Preventative
War: The Supreme Crime.
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