Chomsky Video: Why Iraq Missing from 2008 debates-4
Contributed by J. R. Ransom
Noam Chomsky
Video (8min 24sec) Chomsky on why Iraq is missing from 2008 debates Part 4 of 4. Noam Chomsky: Why is Iraq Missing from 2008 Presidential Race?
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.
"...So when President Bush came in there was an agreement, called the framework agreement, that had been established in 1994, neither the United States nor North Korea is quite living up to it, but it was more or less functioning. At that time North Korea, under the framework agreement, had stopped any testing of long range missiles. They had maybe 1 or 2 bombs worth of plutonium and it was verifiably not making more..."
