--i earlier stated chomsky and ali (and hey, what is it with these references to Ali, I thought he was a bad guy unrepentant old leftie dogmatist?) don't engage in the monster rhetoric the way it is generally used, and the reading of their books, articles would confirm that. Yes, they use the M word and then add onto that a whole lot of other points that actually are in direct contradiction to the monster discourse of the empire.
ali and chomsky talk about a saddam as a monster within the context of iraqi history, not as a monster that the US should be any more concerned about than, say, Sharon, Mubarak, the Turkish generals, Uzbekhi gangsters,... In that sense too, the way they talk about the situation in Iraq is, ironically, little different from the much maligned ramsey clarke...
and this just in, the monsters leading the resistance are attacking the US monster occupiers half as much as they were a few months ago...so sayeth the monster sanchez and the monsters at All Things Considered excited to report...can't wait to hear this happy news report....
steve