“Strikingly, no concern was voiced over the glaringly obvious fact that no official reason was ever offered for going to war — no reason, that is, that could not be instantly refuted by a literate teenager.”

—  Noam Chomsky

Z Magazine, May 1991 http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/z9105-what-we-say.html. <br class="br">Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994

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