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Noam Chomsky on Veterans Day

born 1928 United States

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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a "war against terrorism."

Washington's furious assault on a poor peasant society had little to do with its wars in the region.

Nobody is ever involved in an aggressive war; it's always a defensive war -- on both sides.

Canada became the per capita largest war exporter, trying to make as much money as it could from the murder of people in Indochina.

Until the United States prosecutes its own leaders, it is guilty of grave breaches of the Geneva Convention, that means war crimes.

Armies usually aren't interested in wars.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Noam Chomsky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.