Noam Chomsky

In a major address, Noam Chomsky says there has been little change in the conventional debate over a US invasion abroad: from Vietnam to Iraq, the two main political parties and political pundits differ only on the tactics of US goals, which are assumed to be legitimate. On the other hand, public opposition to war has also remained consistent, Chomsky says, but, whether Iraqi or American, ignored.

"...Characterize aggression as the supreme international crime differing from only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself all the accumulated evil of the whole. So everything that follows from the aggression is part of the evil of the aggression. The good news from the US military survey of the focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principals. They understand that sectarian violence and the other post-war horrors are contained within the supreme international crime comitted by the invaders..."