can't stop reading

noam chomsky quotes!!!

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky


hoorah for wikiquote.

also, i was arguing with someone about how we should get out of iraq because we're just in there for the oil, and I wish I said this

"To gain control over this resource, and have probably military bases there, is a tremendous achievement for world control. You read counter-arguments to this, and they're worth looking at. So it's argued that it can't be true, because the costs of reconstruction are gonna be greater than the profits that will be made. Well, maybe that's true, maybe it isn't, but it's totally irrelevant. And the reason is because the costs of reconstruction are gonna be paid by the taxpayer, by you, and the profits are gonna go right into the pockets of the energy corporations. So yeah, it doesn't matter how they balance out, it's just another taxpayer subsidy to the rich."

• Source: KGNU benefit at the University of Colorado at Boulder, April 5, 2003

anyway, so i was sort of wrong about us being in iraq for the oil since it's not exactly like we could just seize them and anyway the price of oil has gone up. but at the same time, our insistence in a pro america "democratic free" government will "inadvertently" let the US have control over who Iraq is going to sell the oil to. in the meantime, defense contractors and everyone on the payroll of the military are happy; well, except for soldiers and their families. but they do get to be heroes.