Monday, April 14, 2003

Chomsky on Iraq

There's a good interview with Noam Chomsky (cue the boos from some corners) on ZNet about the Iraq war. Particularly, I thought this was a nice way of putting the issue of WMDs:

Question: There have been no wmd found. Does this retrospectively undercut Bush's rationales for war?

Answer: Only if one takes the rationale seriously. The leadership still pretends to, as Fleischer's current remarks illustrate. If they can find something, which is not unlikely, that will be trumpeted as justification for the war. If they can't, the whole issue will be "disappeared" in the usual fashion.
How true.