[Peace-discuss] Chomsky's disinformation about JFK and Vietnam

[ndahlhei at uiuc.edu]

Chomsky as a disinformation artist on JFK and Vietnam:

    Noam Chomsky has done some great work as a progressive 
writer discussing the atrocities committed by the U.S. 
government by the military-industrial complex to further 
imperialism and by extension, global capitalism.  Yet, he 
fails to ask legitimate questions about our government.  A 
government who serves the rich corporations and war 
profiteers at the expense of its people cannot be trusted to 
reveal its secrets and its more nefarious machinations.  For 
that matter, the compliant corporate media will never 
question the legitimacy of such a system as long as their 
corporate masters continue to profits off wars such as 
Vietnam and now Iraq.  Chomsky has done excellent work 
documenting the genocidal prosecution of the Vietnam War and 
now has done the same for this current round of fighting in 
Iraq, but he has avoided discussing deep political causes 
and shifts within the deep bowels of governmental power such 
as the highly plausible links between the JFK murder and 
subsequent government cover-up to Vietnam policy.  These 
links between the forces behind JFK’s murder and escalation 
in Vietnam have thousands of pages of documentary evidence 
from the Pentagon Papers and other internal White House and 
National Security documents.  Yet Chomsky continues to deny 
a conspiracy to murder JFK even though most rational and 
informed American citizens believe that the evidence points 
to a conspiracy.  Chomsky also fails to note the changes in 
Vietnam policy from JFK to LBJ as having any significance, 
despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.  Chomsky 
should live up to his purported reputation as America’s 
great political dissident and stop parroting tired official 
government propaganda and accepted theories about high-level 
U.S. politics and the Vietnam War.