Noam Chomsky reflects on the Iraq War 20 years later | The Mehdi Hasan Show 

And come back from where it started.

@Int’l Voice of Reason: Such a brilliant and truthful quote.

I too am shocked lol, this would have been impossible even ten years ago

Second appearance I believe

@@kidmaciek2 Totally false. You're probably just a denier of the Indoneasian genocide of east timor which the US supported.

But RU-vid is all about censorship. Noticed all the extra ads lately? You better not DARE say anything about them. The google is so EVIL these days.

Wow Chomsky the eternal democrat gets invited to a democratic platform WOAAAAH

Well said and well REASONED.

Only thing you that can be said is that the topics they discuss even the title of what he is know for is different

Dude, stop. It's not pro-imperialist and Chomsky isn't anti-imperialist unless it's about the USA. With Russian imperialism, he's perfectly fine with that.

@@Joelmonterrey Chomsky is at best adjacent to Glenn Greenwald but no more than that, which is one of Noams *only* failures as a media critic and public intellectual. And to be frank, he's factually correct about America and its genocidal imperialism and the disinformation used to support that imperialism which has been platformed by the MSM since before we were born and continues to this day. I know this because I'm a media criticism-focused academic journalist and I started down this road because I was raised on Rush Limbaugh. If your only argument against Chomsky is Russia Bad you're fundamentally arguing that our imperialsm isn't as bad and thats...that's not the vibe my man. Read the room, few folks under 35 that are on the left are into your whole "we say we're liberal but really we're neoliberal democrats who uphold the status quo and ensure progressive values are tantamount to communism" mccarthyism nonsense anymore, that way of life is dying the death it deserves before our eyes. Just think! If the ICC finally has any guts they will use the Afghanistan Papers as evidence to haul Obama and Biden in for the many war crimes they committed...and if your answer to those factual realities is that I'm a far left extremist, I hate to break it to you my friend but on a global political spectrum you're a conservative, and an imperialist warmonger. Some of us realized we have blood on our hands and are willing to actually dedicate ourselves to dismantling white supremacy, the rest of yall are the white moderate that MLK wrote about in Letter From Birmingham Jail. Have a nice life tho.

It's an exception that proves the rule, in this case the propaganda model.

You cherish the guy who hides behind leftist rhetoric to deny genocides? Wow....

Not a thing.

We did Iraq 30-40 years after Vietnam so we have a few years before we make a mess somewhere else.

Well, at least with Iraq again on the news, more people will finally learn the proper pronounciation of the name of this country ;) (no, it's not "eye-rak")

@@robertchmielecki2580 I Ran home and I Rack the balls.

I do not condone the Iraq invasion but just now I find Putin Trump, and Brexit, more of an issue I find Trump a greater menace to the USA than Stalin ever was, and I am no Stalinist but the massive ignorance of the Republican Party and Fox are really more of a menace than Communism.

Dude made his money leeching of these wars his Jewish people promoted Gets to look like a hero making shekels and looking like a good Jew

What a time to be alive

Bush has to pay

@ناصر such as?

Putin Bush and Biden are all the same

Because he lives with guilty!

Freudian slip

السلام عليكم. شنو قصد چومسكي ب USS Fallujah ؟ انكليزيتي ضعيفة. شكرا.

@@gr3ndizer97 وعليكم السلام ورحمة الله، بيكول البحرية الاميريكية عملت سفينة حربية جديدة وسمتها يوسس فلوجة على اسم مدينة الفلوجة العراقية، فبيكول كيف يسموها مثل هذا الاسم اللي يخلد ذكرى مدمرة لأهل العراق

But RU-vid is all about censorship. Noticed all the extra ads lately? You better not DARE say anything about them. The google is so EVIL these days.

Then Chomsky should limit his comments to those fields that he actually knows what he is talking about: Linguistics-And its relationship to Computer Science. But he has ZERO Credibility to talk about anything else-Especially Foreign Policy!

Boo

@@khdmhd2947 Don't Shoot the Messenger if you can't face the reality of the message.

Hater?

NPR is scared of Noam because Noam isn’t afraid to tell the truth about Israel

Shocking? Not on Medhi's show I'm not shocked

NPR is center-left so it's not really so shocking...

Their official ban started with Jeff Greenfield, before he moved on to corporate media. You can look up Noam discussing this to learn more if interested.....

​@@intlvoiceofreason9239 NPR started banning Chomsky under Jeff Greenfield.

The biggest industry on earth is War. War creates money, so the defence industry is working overtime.

You left in 2006. Thank you. Please do not come back.

@@adk46er5203 Why would he want to come back???

​@@adk46er5203 and it's 2023 now. What makes you think the person is coming back?. People like you and Bush and Blair should be tried for crimes against humanity

Why Americans called themselves "Expats" but refer to other as "immigrants"??? I'm just curious...WHY? 🤨🤔

@@MidnightSunshine27 all yanks are immigrants.

If Mehdi didn’t invite him, he would have never made it on the show

@@stevebergman4587 Yea Mehdi is the best thing on MSNBC, but that’s not saying much.

@@notbadnotbad True. Only thing I didn’t like about Mehdi is how he played the entire Trump Russia commentary .

Absolutely CORRECT and true.

Lets not go too far... this wasn't THE MEDIA... it was one show... so credit should go to Mehdi Hasan not the media

It's Mehdi Hasan not the complete media

Hasan can be fired for this.

I saw it years ago.. Was honestly NOT surprised about Americas hypocrisy.

I recently saw there were video games being made specifically about Fallujah and glorifying american soldiers evil. its disgusting

@@aliceinwonder8978 yes, it's disgusting. That's the Military-entertainment complex. There is an article about it on Wikipedia.

Not many will understand it though

"The Military Industrial Complex acts as a transfer mechanism, it transfers Public Funds to the Private Sector" - Noam Chomsky

"The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact." - Emmanuel Goldstein, "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism," from George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

And less than year after the Afghan retreat, the Ukraine war begins, with the same goal.

The only way to maintain their order is by creating chaos in others destruction.

Chomsky was not, ' right ', about anything, then or now: Chomsky NEVER produced proof that the US Government of, ' Lying ', about the Iraq Intel until AFTER the War started! And Chomsky NEVER explained how Saddam could be compelled to allow proper inspections WITHOUT the threat of Military Force! SMH

Frank, That sounds about right,,,.

oil contracts

@@FC-vp9ej huh?

because he names names, and corporate media hates that.

Aggression against who? I dare you to answer, Eduardo.

Iraqi General Sada wrote a book detailing how Iraq's WMD were moved to Syria. Look up his name he's very convincing. The weapons were later used by Syria.

@@vitocorleone8323what were these so called weapons of mass destruction, 99% of sources say there were none.

​@@vitocorleone8323Iraq and Syria were not friends. Still you cannot invade a country for that. Any country has a right to have strong military. You don’t talk about zionist Israel.

There’s more than two

Korean War? and let's not even begin to talk about all the proxy wars the U.S. has funded

Invasion of Afghanistan n many other nations justified? Brutally killing of MILLIONS of innocent civilians justified?

And add Afghanistan and Libya too.

Yes, the extermination of native tribes was perfectly justified. As was the genocidal invasion of the Philippines. As was our involvement in the Balkans. Etc. Etc.

Optimistic but a good thought nonetheless

Give the man a break. He's 94 yrs old. He should be cuddling up with a cat and taking catnaps in the sunlight.

I'll do you one better: Imagine IF academic egghead Chomsky ever did more with his life than merely complain from the sidelines about fields that he has never had the guts to actually work in himself-Which is everything outside Linguistics-Like the worthless armchair critic that he is! :-D

NOAM Responded 👈😳 "Saddamngreatfriendumukraineum"...

Saddam was a brutal dictator that the U.S. train supported and funded for many a year. You can almost say the U.S made Saddam

NOAM SAID 👈😳 "strageitiblunderbummer"..

NOAM SAID 👈😳 "truminplazriondeadcatsnblunder"...

Some unintelligent people will not understand what Noam Chomsky said... because they lack brain power to decipher the meaning of his words.

NOAM SAID 👈😳 "Nazihanginoblunderbummer"...

And Ukraine is for laundering our taxes right into the pockets of corrupt politicians and the war machine.

Noam Shitheadsky

Right on

Please consider there are good persons and not good persons regardless of the melanin content in the skin.

That’s the most ignorant and racist thing I’ve heard all day. Thanks for showing your colors.

​@@lawlcosteroflulz you're the most ignorant and racist thing I've heard all day. Thanks for showing your colors.

@@lawlcosteroflulz Call the police like most of you do in the first place 😂

Also, Jimmy Dore & Max Blumenthal

Nobody with an ounce of morality will like international drone attacking terrorist

Australia is just another lap dog of US hegemony. Plus they would’ve enjoyed cheap oil as a result.

NOAM SAID 👈😳 "strageitiblunderbummer"..

That was a LIE to get everyone beating those WAR DRUMS

Lol. The tired mantra of no WMD's. Perhaps you might want to the Syrians who were gassed to death from chemical weapons, proven to have been removed from Iraq.

Putin once said he would have found them.

He is a charlatan

@@stevec7770 Based on what?

@@patrickgrove3469 Evidence. You don’t even have to read Chomsky. Just look at any foreign press. Especially not western. No one in the rest of the world thinks the invasion of Iraq was some benevolent act to bring democracy. It’s such a joke.

@@patrickgrove3469 he rants about economic inequality while collecting hefty speaking fees

@@h.b.7104 nope