On November 4th, 2002, Noam Chomsky gave this talk, "Why Iraq?" at the Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard.



During the question and answer period, Chomsky was confronted by Theodore "Ted" Sorensen, a former senior Kennedy administration official. Chomsky and Sorensen get into a fairly heated debate.



Called Kennedy's "intellectual bloodbank", Sorensen was JFK's main speech writer ("Ask not what your country can do for you..."), likely his ghostwriter for much of his _Profiles in Courage_, too, as well as being present during national security meetings.



The source audio had a lot of loud thumps, bumps, and other audio gremlins. I've cleaned it up as best I could.

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