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A similar denial is evident in the rhetoric of Noam Chomsky; prodded for commentary on the war, he recites a litany of past American wrongdoing as if that somehow banishes the question of how soon Saddam Hussein will have nuclear weapons and what he will do with them when he gets them. --Eric S. Raymond, September 13, 2002 [263]

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  4. And when I did reality checks against the idiotic, immoral, anti-American, vicious things he says, I find him a moral wasteland, and a fool…
  5. I personally regard Chomsky as a kook and a half on toast. --Jimmy Wales, December 8, 2001 [260]
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  7. In any case, Chomsky's problem is not that he's anti-War -- this 'war' is getting sillier by the minute - the problem is that he's an idiot…
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