Noam Chomsky - What's All the Fuss About?

I've long admired Canada's decision not to participate in the war on Iraq and I've been critical of the American decision to start the war.

Whenever the topic comes up on talk.origins you can count on the resident coterie of kooks bringing up Naom Chomsky. Apparently it's a grave insult to be associated with Chomsky. I don't know whether to be insulted 'cause I'm not familiar with his writings.

Today I accidently stumbled on a link to a speech by Noam Chomsky. Here it is.



Chomsky says lot of things that make a great deal of sense to me. For example, when taking about American policy in the Middle East he says,

If somebody was watchng all of this from outer space they might be led to believe that George Bush was embedded in the White House as an agent of Osama Bin Laden. He's certainly acting that way.

With respect to Us foreign policy, ...

The US declares the sovereign right to use force as it wishes. It's gonna lead even if nobody's following.

I'm not an American but I don't see why I should feel insulted to be on the same side as Chomsky. I know many Americans who aree with what I saw in the video. Am I missing something? Is Chomsky much more evil than he appears in this clip? Is there something I should know? Is he mean to old people, or something?