Showing posts with label Chomsky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chomsky. Show all posts

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Quote: "Why is it necessary to bomb and to shoot at every opportunity?"

Quote: Vladimir Putin "Why is it necessary to bomb and to shoot at every opportunity?"

"One state, the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way...."

"...This is very dangerous. Nobody feels secure any more because nobody can hide behind international law," Putin said. "This is nourishing an arms race with countries seeking to obtain nuclear weapons... We're witnessing the untrammelled use of the military in international affairs... Why is it necessary to bomb and to shoot at every opportunity?"

Probably because the current Idiot-in-Charge (Commander-In-Chief) sees himself as some sort of Cowboy Gunslinger out to cleanse the world of all it's Bad Guys, this obviously is done with true Christian Compassion by blowing the shit out of them. I remember reading in the Bible that Jesus had an Uzi and rode around on an Aircraft Carrier, that's definately in there somewhere I'm sure. "Suffer the Little Children..." well the Idiot-In-Charge is certainly making that happen, no doubt. I'm sure Jesus would approve. Wouldn't he?

Strange that a man so fond of thumping the Bible and quoting God, invading countries left right & centre (only if populated by 'brown folks' though let's make that clear) and unleashing Weapons Of Mass Destruction at EVERY available opportunity should have been so cowardly when it was his turn to fight. Making up for it now though, happy enough to send lots of other peoples' sons and daughters to kill brown children. Oh yes. You don't get congress approval for a $622 billion budget then not have fun spending it on highly advanced technology to maim, blind, slaughter, burn, cripple and kill.

The Idiot-In-Charge pays no heed to International Law, Pre-Emptive strikes are now the order of the day. Evidence? Who needs it? "Nuke 'Em All" it's the Christian way to Peace and Democracy. Don't like that Government? Overthrow it. Want some Oil or other natural resource? Invade the country, blow the living crap out of it's infrastructure then charge them $Trillions to rebuild it. Send in your buddy to steal a few $Billion, assign the "rebuilding contracts" to your other pals. The Vice Idiot-In-Charge can hardly manage to spend all the cash he gets in kick backs from his old company but I'm sure it's great fun trying, that's when he has time to go shopping, after all shooting people in the face must be a full time job for that idiot.

And now we're being told that the "highest levels" of the Iranian government is supplying Iraqi insurgents with sophisticated roadside bombs. The evidence? Well none actually, but hey when has that ever mattered? I'm sure they can find a "video" somewhere, maybe a passport to persuade the doubters. Come on let's get behind this, whatever you need I'm sure we can find. Let's go! I mean how dare another Country meddle in Iraq's affairs?

The "inevitable" pre-emptive war against Iran must not be allowed to happen, as Noam Chomsky so accurately states "The grand strategy authorises the US to carry out preventive war: preventive, not pre-emptive. Whatever the justifications for pre-emptive war might be, they do not hold for preventive war, particularly as that concept is interpreted by its current enthusiasts: the use of military force to eliminate an invented or imagined threat, so that even the term "preventive" is too charitable. Preventive war is, very simply, the supreme crime that was condemned at Nuremberg."

—Noam Chomsky, "Preventive War 'The Supreme Crime': Iraq: invasion that will live in infamy", August, 11, 2003.

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Quote: Noam Chomsky


"I think, legally speaking, there's a very solid case for impeaching every American president since the
Second World War. They've all been either outright war criminals or involved in serious war crimes."

Noam Chomsky

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Quote: Noam Chomsky

"I think the issue, to come back to my original comment, is not simply disinformation and the Gulf crisis. The issue is much broader. It's whether we want to live in a free society or whether we want to live under what amounts to a form of self-imposed totalitarianism, with the bewildered herd marginalized, directed elsewhere, terrified, screaming patriotic slogans, fearing for their lives and admiring with awe the leader who saved them from destruction, while the educated masses goose step on command and repeat the slogans they're supposed to repeat and the society deteriorates at home. We end up serving as a mercenary enforcer state, hoping that others are going to pay us to smash up the world. Those are the choices. That's the choice that you have to face. The answer to those questions is very much in the hands of people like you and me."

Noam Chomsky

Monday, November 06, 2006

Quote: Noam Chomsky

"If the US is unquestionably authorized to bomb another country to compel its leaders to turn over someone it suspects of involvement in a terrorist act, then, a fortiori, Cuba, Nicaragua, and a host of others are entitled to bomb the US because there is no doubt of its involvement in very serious terrorist attacks against them: in the case of Cuba going back 45 years, extensively documented in impeccable sources, and not questioned; in the case of Nicaragua, even condemned by the World Court and the Security Council (in vetoed resolutions), after which the US escalated the attack. This conclusion surely follows if we accept the principle of universality."

Noam Chomsky