Noam Chomsky - Guerilla of the Week

It's kind of interesting. The heads of the war on terror are the same people in the administration that declared a "war on terror" back in 1981. On the diplomatic side at the UN who have John Negroponte who was at that time the U.S. ambassador to Honduras who was overseeing torture and violence in Honduras, but more importantly this is where the bases were for the U.S.-run mercenary forces that were attacking Nicaragua. And that's what the U.S. was condemned for by the World Court, to stop and to pay reparations. But of course the U.S. disregarded it. Now without any flicker of an eyelash, he is running the diplomatic side of the war on terror.

The military side of the war against terror, you have Donald Rumsfeld, who was Reagan's emissary to the Middle East who was sent to restore relations with our friend Saddam Hussein knowing perfectly well he was a complete monster and he was using chemical weapons. Iraq was taken off the list of terrorist states in 1982 so the U.S. could then provide him with arms, aid, establish relations and so, and since there was an empty stop on the list of terrorist states they introduced Cuba, as a terrorist state at the time.

It goes right down the list. Elliot Abrams who was responsible for Latin America, was a major sponsor of state terrorism and atrocities, and, in fact, was convicted of misdemeanors for lying to Congress, but got a presidential pardon. He's now back in charge of Middle East Affairs on the National Security Council.

You don't know whether to laugh or cry.   article

I feel that way all the time.

And I do both.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.