If Nader were to win the Presidency and pull the US out of Iraq the day after, I think it would be hysterically funny to watch Noam Chomsky criticizing Ralph Nader for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths resulting from the ensuing civil war.

America to withdraw its troops from Iraq ahead of schedule. To prepare for the "civil war" brewing back home?

To be a great president, you have to have a war. All the great presidents have had their wars.

We think federalism in the centre and the south is a door to weakening the Iraqi state and fuelling civil war.

There were two sides to this, and they were all trying to pull the strings they had politically. I think what happened here is that it moved . . . past all of that stuff to a true public issue. There were a lot of people who got very active against this.

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.