Bill Clinton in Power and Terror, by Noam Chomsky

On Foreign Policy: 1990s: Supported military junta in Haiti

The Marines invaded Haiti in 1915, destroyed the parliamentary system, reinstituted slavery, killed nobody knows how many people (Haitians say about 15,000), turned their country into a plantation for US investors, and instituted a National Guard, which is a brutal, murderous force that has run the place pretty much ever since under US backing.

This continued right through to when Bush and Clinton supported the military junta directly, right through the worst terror. That was another thing that I saw personally for a couple of days. Right now, in Queens, NY, one of their leading criminals, Emmanuel Constant, is hidden by the US. He's already been sentenced in Haiti for terrorist crimes. He was the head of the paramilitary force that was responsible for killing maybe 5,000 people in Haiti in the early 1990s when Bush and Clinton were supporting the military junta. Haiti has tried to extradite him, but of course the US doesn't even bother responding, and the press won't even comment on it.

Source: Power and Terror, by Noam Chomsky, p. 74-75 May 25, 2002

On War & Peace: OpEd: Aided Saddam even after he gassed the Kurds

The reasons for the invasion of Iraq, you can be absolutely certain, have nothing to do with the official statements. That is not even a question. It is another service of the educated classes that they manage to keep this quiet. They all know, of course

When you read George Bush, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, or all the rest of them, they tell you, "We have to go after Saddam Hussein; this guy is such an evil monster that he even used chemical weapons against his own people. And how can we let someone like that survive?"

It is true. He used chemical weapons against his own people, but there is a phrase missing: "with the aid and support of Daddy Bush," who thought that was just fine. He continued to provide aid and support for the monster, and so did Britain. Long after the worst atrocities that Saddam carried out, including the gassing of the Kurds and the rest, the US and Britain happily gave him aid and support, including aid that enabled him to develop weapons of mass destruction.

Source: Power and Terror, by Noam Chomsky, p.130-131 Mar 19, 2002

The above quotations are from Power and Terror Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews by Noam Chomsky. Click here for other excerpts from Power and Terror Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews by Noam Chomsky. Click here for other excerpts by Bill Clinton. Click here for a profile of Bill Clinton.
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