Bush the ‘Best Ally’ of Bin Laden, Ahmadinejad, Prof Says
President Bush is the “best ally” of Osama bin Laden and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, leftist MIT professor Noam Chomsky was quoted as telling one of Japan’s largest newspapers on Tuesday.
The newspaper, Mainichi Shimbun, published what it called an exclusive interview with Chomsky, to coincide with the sixth anniversary of al-Qaeda’s terrorist attacks on the United States.
In the interview, Chomsky argued that the Iraq war “significantly increased the threat of terror,” and he cited Michael Scheuer, a former CIA analyst and author of the book “Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror,” as calling Bush bin Laden’s main ally.
Chomsky later added, “just as Bush is Osama Bin Laden’s best ally, he is also Ahmadinejad’s best ally.” Washington’s “threats” against Iran had the anticipated effect of making the Iranian government “more harsh and verbal,” he said.
The interview was published four days after al-Qaeda released a video message from bin Laden in which the fugitive terrorist approvingly cited both Chomsky and Scheuer.
“This war [in Iraq] was entirely unnecessary,” bin Laden said in the video, according to the transcript released by the SITE Institute. “And among the most capable of those from your own side who speak to you on this topic and on the manufacturing of public opinion is Noam Chomsky, who spoke sober words of advice prior to the war, but the leader of Texas doesn’t like those who give advice.”
The al-Qaeda chief also urged those wanting to know the reasons why the West is “losing” the war to “read the book of Michael Scheuer.”
Elsewhere in the Mainichi interview, Chomsky is quoted as saying:
– That he had predicted directly after 9/11 that governments would use the attacks “as an excuse” to intensify repression.
– That the invasion of Iraq was a war crime.
– That the U.S. bombed Taliban-ruled Afghanistan after 9/11 despite having no real evidence at the time that the plot had been hatched in that country.
– That while Afghanistan today needs constructive help, including offers of alternatives to poppy cultivation by peasants, “what the West prefers to do is to bomb.”
– That “the United States is not a functioning democracy.”
– That the “first 9/11″ wasn’t the al-Qaeda attack in 2001 but the Sept. 11, 1973 military coup that toppled Chile’s communist President Salvadore Allende. “The effect of the first 9/11 was incomparably worse than the second 9/11,” Chomsky says. “How come nobody talks about that? Well there is a simple reason. Because we were responsible for it.”
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Noam Chomsky for president! The truth that Noam Chomsky (and other clear eyed observers) see is far stranger than the appalling fiction that the American masses are fed.
It doesn’t look like Chomsky will run, so if Dennis Kucinich gets in, perhaps he could persuade Chomsky to work as the secretary of state or something.
It is now obvious that Bush is doing everything that Bin Laden wants and is bringing down the world with him.
Bush over reacts at every attack threat or rumor in this war…because that is where the money is.
Bush could start to negotiate with Bin laden…But he is afraid too…he might find out where the bogey man is.
My friend Phil Ochs said at summer camp…every revolutionary needs a trial!
I think Bin Laden would turn himself in if he was given a fair trail in the World Court….
ForUs,
Jim
Hey Jim Glover
Yours and Phil’s music is still my favorite and still relevant, sad to say. Its the same as when I was 17, still no changes, same battles over and over, just different enemies.
I am sure that Bin Laden is on “our” payroll, so why should he turn himself in for something we either paid him to do or let him take credit for.
Thank you, President Ahmadinejad, for the truth about Bush as a recruiter for al-Qaeda. You might not be the best president in this years draft, but I’d trade Bush, Cheney, and three future draft choices for you.
The brainwashing in the United States is massive and largely effective. We dissidents are kept in an impotent posture rather like a bunch of pathetic lap dogs on leashes yapping at a pack of big pit bulls, dobermans, and german shepards strutting about. Cindy Sheehan is a big exception because she has cojones or the female equivalent of same and is like the boy who pointed out that the emperor has no clothes. But we need tens of millions of Cindy Sheehans if we are to overthrow the corrupt mob running this country these days. And I mean to include all the corrupt overpaid CEO’s in that. We are headed down the toilet as long as this crowd is in control here.
As we all know from previous centuries: That the sinister force and it’s puny human pawns (consciousness) will stop at nothing to control the Truth of who we really are from manifesting what we really want– in daily life. That being said, who we really are is The I Am in action. And we will stop at nothing to bring into outer, (from the Inner),
manifestation a complete return to the Dominion of Love everywhere-in all activities.
We are here and we are a fully mature group of embodied Christed, Buddha”s laying down or, GROUNDING this unstoppable return to Reverence for all Life.
Are numbers are legion, our communion is solid and We Will stop at nothing.
and So It Is Beloved I Am
Chomsky has been writing this for years. No new info here.
Thank God for Noam Chomsky. There will be a big void when he and Zinn are gone.
Someone needs to step up. I’m too dim witted for the job.
I wish he would do a long and thorough analysis of exactly how and why the US is not currently a functioning democracy. I know the reasons superficially, but an in-depth treatment would be good.
How do we know that Bin Laden and Bush don’t really work together? Is Bin Laden real?
I’m pretty sure that Bin Laden will never be caught because the US needs him to keep people scared.
Who’s tire of being scared?