[Seattle-editorial] FP: Two years later

Jason Reep jasonr at speakeasy.net
Thu Sep 11 10:21:00 PDT 2003


also approve.

-jason

Gentry Lange wrote:
> I approve of either post.
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> We need something up for 911, and well since no one responded the first post is approved already. I appove the second as well. Either or in my opinion. Or both.
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> Gentry
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> OK, since I can't drum up much excitement for John Chuckman right now -- although I do think it is important to feature and introduce new writers; I'm taking another stab at featuring something for 9/11.  How about Chomski -- this from Toronto (news that wouldn't make it in the US press):
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> subtitle: TWO YEARS LATER
> title:  Noam Chomski on 9/11
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> text:  The National Security Strategy declared that the United States, alone, has the right to carry out "preventive war" — preventive, not pre-emptive — using military force to eliminate a perceived threat, even if invented or imagined. 
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> Preventive war is, very simply, the "supreme crime" condemned at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals. 
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>>From early September, 2002, the Bush administration issued grim warnings about the danger that Saddam Hussein posed to the United States, with broad hints that Saddam was linked to Al Qaeda and involved in the Sept. 11 attacks. The propaganda assault helped enable the administration to gain some support from a frightened population for the planned invasion of a country known to be virtually defenseless— and a valuable prize, at the heart of the world's major energy system. <a href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=32700&group=webcast">Full story.</a>
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> Related story: IMC columnist John Chuckman looks at where we are two years after 9/11. <a href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=32671&group=webcast"> THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF INSANITY </a>
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> Other notable posts by Chuckman: <a href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=32527&group=webcast">
> THE PERFUMED PRINCE AND OTHER POLITICAL TALES </a> and <a href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=32310&group=webcast> GEORGE WILL FOLLIES </a>  
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