<HTML>In a message dated 6/17/2002 3:32:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time, dhenwood@panix.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Noam isn't perfect. Gosh, what a revelation. But the main reason people dredge up his imperfections is to discredit him (meaning his critique of U.S. imperialism). There's no other good reason to harp on what he did or said about Faurisson or the Khmer Rouge. As Christopher Hitchens himself once argued (and quite well). Doug </BLOCKQUOTE> That seems to be the intention of the posters. Sergio</HTML>