Noam Chomsky on Osama Bin Laden: George W. Bush's Crimes 'Vastly Exceed' Bin Laden's

• When you have honourary degrees from over 30 universities, are the most cited person alive, have never once been proven wrong and are regarded as the smartest man alive like Chomsky is people tend to lsiten to you.

• Chomsky's remark is typical of a leftist anti-American moron who is genuflected to by similar-minded Hollywood-types. Good God, listen to the mindless drivel that comes out of his mouth; how can anyone take it seriously?

• Really, the question of which guy committed the greater crimes comes down to the matter of resources. I have no doubt whatever that bin Laden would have outstripped Bush, who after all was never the best at anything, if the big feller had the same tools at his disposal as Bush did. Sure, Bush killed more civilians by a few orders of magnitude than bin Laden did, but bin Laden's attacks cost maybe a million or two total, not including overhead on the camps and stuff, and involved a relative handful of people, while the Bush efforts have topped a trillion and still counting and required hundreds of thousands of insanely well-armed US military personnel, spooks and mercenaries. So while Bush did in fact kill, maim, traumatize and convert into refugees many, many more people than did bin Laden, the latter clearly has the edge on cost-effectiveness and vituperation. Chomsky is therefore technically correct but on the merits bin Laden was the vastly superior criminal.

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