Bush
Needs Public Fear
To Win In 2004 - Chomsky
By Anthony Boadle
10-30-3
- "It is a frightened country and it is easy to conjure
up an imminent threat," Chomsky said - when asked how Bush could get
reelected - "They have a card that they can play - terrify the
population with some invented threat, and that is not very hard to do,"
he said.
- U.S. Dissident Says Bush Needs Fear for
Reelection
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- HAVANA (Reuters) - U.S.
linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky said on Wednesday that
President Bush will have to "manufacture" another threat to American
security to win reelection in 2004 after U.S failure in occupying
Iraq.
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- Chomsky, attending a Latin American social sciences
conference in Cuba, said that since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United
States, the Bush administration had redefined U.S. national security
policy to include the use of force abroad, with or without U.N.
approval.
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- "It is a frightened country and it is easy to conjure
up an imminent threat," Chomsky said at the launching of a Cuban edition
of a book of interviews published by the Mexican newspaper La Jornada,
when asked how Bush could get reelected.
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- "They have a card that they can play ... terrify the
population with some invented threat, and that is not very hard to do,"
he said.
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- After the "disaster" of the U.S. invasion of Iraq,
Bush could turn his sights on Communist-run Cuba, which his
administration officials have charged with developing a biological
weapons research program, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
professor of linguistics said.
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- Chomsky said the military occupation of Iraq, to
topple a "horrible monster running it but not a threat to anyone," was a
failure.
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- "The country had been devastated by sanctions. The
invasion ended sanctions. The tyrant is gone and there is no outside
support for domestic dissidence," he said. "It takes real talent to fail
in this endeavor."
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- Chomsky said it was reasonable to assume the Bush
administration would try to "manufacture a short-term improvement in the
economy" by incurring in enormous federal government debt and "imposing
burdens on future generations."
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- The Bush administration was a continuation of the
Ronald Reagan presidency that declared a national emergency over the
threat posed by Nicaragua's leftist government in the 1980s, he
said.
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- "The same people were able to present Grenada as a
threat to survival of the United States the last time they were in
office," Chomsky said, in reference to the U.S. invasion of the
Caribbean island in 1983 to thwart Cuban influence.
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- Chomsky, a leftist icon who is better known today for
his critique of U.S. foreign policy that for his revolutionary theory of
syntax and grammar in the 1960s, gave a lecture on the U.S politics of
domination on Tuesday night that was attended by Cuban leader Fidel
Castro.
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- The author of "Language and mind," "Manufacturing
Consent," "Profit Over People" and "9-11" said the Bush administration
was out to dominate the world by the use of military force if need be,
and Iraq was the first test.
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- Chomsky criticized Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria
Aznar for backing the United States and Britain in invading Iraq under a
false pretext that the Arab country possessed weapons of mass
destruction.
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- Chomsky praised Cuba's defiance of U.S. hostility and
trade sanctions for four decades. But he also criticized the jailing of
75 Cuban dissidents earlier this year by Castro's government.
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- "Yes, I have criticized them for that," he said in an
interview on August 28 with Radio Havana. "I think it was a
mistake."
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