The Left and 9/11

Cian co015d5200 at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Sep 13 10:36:27 PDT 2002


Dennis Perrin said:
> Even Chomsky, who's held in high regard by those who find al-Qaeda to be a
> minor irritant at best, has said that thanks to years of civil rights and
> civil liberties activism and victories, there is more resistance to the
> assault on the Bill of Rights than is imagined. In other words, Ashcroft
> doesn't have the open field that he and others think is there.

As shown by the fact that plenty of right-wingers are as disturbed by him, as people on the left.


> Actually, the attack on Iraq, which seems is coming like it or not, has
more
> to do with oil and geopolitical positioning than anything else.

Not to mention the insane plan to reshape the middle east. The US is a scarier presence in the region, than Saddam. Much as I'd like to see Saddam deposed.



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