[lbo-talk] Billmon comments on Diary of an Interrogator

[kjkhoo at softhome.net]

At 7:26 am -0400 3/5/04, snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com wrote:
>At 01:49 AM 5/3/2004, kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote:
>>Aside from the scoop -- the best part of this is the bit where he writes:
>>
>>"Another point is that we can call our being here anything we want, 
>>but "liberating force" is only a political name. We are an 
>>"occupying force" in the eyes of the Iraqi people and you cannot 
>>tell them otherwise because they are not conditioned to play to 
>>political spin like Americans are. "
>>
>>Chomsky will take no pleasure in being thus vindicated!
>
>No, that was what his "source" (detainee) said. No one would be 
>surprised, least of all Chomsky, that an Iraqi might say that! What 
>is more interesting is his defense, which completely ignores that 
>the u.s. made things a mess in the first place:

Oops! Mea culpa. Thanks.