From: "John Foster" <borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com>
Subject: Re: doing a chomsky. thumbs up
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:45:14 -0700


we have not discussed the economic cost of repairing the devastation. the
cbc has just reported that the cost of reconstruction will be $100 billion.
had the UN and the true allies been able to continue in Iraq, some 15,000
lives would have been saved, and some $100 billion in expenses been saved.

john




----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
To: <heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 11:14 PM
Subject: doing a chomsky


> John Foster wrote:
>
> >Bunch of flag suckers. You used to have our sympathy when the WT towers
> >were
> >recently destroyed (that lasted for a brief blip), but not now.
>
> Oh, you mean like the sympathy that Chomsky showed when he downplayed the
> WTC bombings by comparing them to the missile strike in Sudan? John you
are
> just as transparent as Chomsky. Or rather more transparent. If you were
> HONESTLY anti-war in this matter, then that would be fine and we could
have
> an honest discussion about it. But in your case, as also in Malcolm's,
your
> whole anti-war stance is so obviously a mask for your anti-CAPITALIST
stance
> that the red flag you are sucking on is not the one with the maple leaf on
> it. The US could find a whole factory full of chemical weapons in Iraq,
and
> instead of taking back your opposition, you would probably find some way
to
> blame the US for forcing Hussein to stockpile them. Just like many
> anti-Vietnam-war activists tried to blame the US for "forcing" the Khmer
> Rouge to commit their atrocities. Just like Chomsky tried to blame the US
> for "forcing" the Sandanistas into the hands of the Soviets. What you're
> doing has been seen over and over again. You're doing a Chomsky. But hey,
> don't take it from me. Take it from a former human shield who returned
from
> Iraq with a quite different view, a view so changed by what he saw (and he
> was THERE, whereas you were not) that he was driven to write the following
> article titled simply and honestly, "I was wrong." It is here:
>
> http://www.assyrianchristians.com/i_was_wrong_mar_26_03.htm
>
> Anthony Crifasi
>
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