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Name: Noam Chomsky, Ph.D.
Title: Institute Professor of Linguistics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

Position: CON to the question "Should the U.S. have attacked Iraq?"
Reasoning:

"Bush and his administration were telling the [U.N.] security council back in November very openly and directly that the UN will be 'relevant' if it grants us the authority to do what we want, to use force when we want, and if the UN does not grant us that authority it will be irrelevant. It couldn't be clearer.

They said we already have the authority to do anything we want, you can come along and endorse that authorisation or else you're irrelevant. There could not have been a more clear and explicit way of informing the world that we don't care what you think, we'll do what we want."

Interview with The Guardian
February 4, 2003
Credibility
Ranking:		  Experts
PhD's, JD's (lawyers), Judges, Members of Congress, Ambassadors, Consulate Generals, heads of government, Cabinet-level positions, military generals/admirals, Chief Weapons Inspectors, members of legislative bodies with significant involvement in, or related to, the U.S.- Iraq conflict.

Involvement:
  • Institute Professor, Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976-present
  • Ferrari P. Ward Professorship of Modern Languages and Linguistics, 1966-1976
  • Full Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (now the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy), 1961-1966
  • Staff member, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1955-1961

Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Linguistics, 1955

Affiliations/
Honors:
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Science
  • Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association
  • Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences
  • Helmholtz Medal
  • Dorothy Eldridge Peacemaker Award
  • Ben Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science

Contact Info:
Phone: 1-617-253-7819 Fax: none listed
E-Mail:   chomsky@mit.edu
Web Site: http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/chomsky.home.html

Other: Select Publications:
  • Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs, South End Press, 2000
  • The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians, South End Press, 1999
  • The New Military Humanism: Lessons From Kosovo, Common Courage Press, 1999
  • Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order, South End Press, 1996
  • Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture, South End Press, 1993
  • Year 501: The Conquest Continues, South End Press, 1993
  • Deterring Democracy, Hill and Wang, 1992
  • Necessary Illusions: Thought Control In Democratic Societies, South End Press, 1989
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