The Road to Surfdom notes that Bush administration officials are finally acknowledging that Noam Chomsky was right with regards to the
real reasons for the invasion of Iraq.
But let’s acknowledge what they have admitted: that Iraq was being used as an example to the rest of the region, if not the world, and that the idea was simply to enact a show of force.
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So what Chomsky had gleaned from largely unheralded sources is now being confirmed by Administration officials via a major media outlet. Which is not to say that I agree with every inference Chomsky makes. And it is interesting to note that concern at such actions has come from rather more mainstream sources: the ABC article quotes, for instance, former CIA director, James Woolsey saying, “I don’t think you should go to war to set examples or send messages.”