Furthermore, Chomsky might be representing opinions as facts, but he does not go invade countries and assassinate people based on his ideas. I think your comparison is unfair in this regard.
If someone confesses to something they didn't do to profit from it, well then they're an idiot and deserve the punishment.
For the record my money is on his involvement and the boasting was a legit confession.
I call this total crap... You'd prefer if someone confessed and be punished, instead of have the __right__ perpetrator be punished?
I do think that justice requires us to punish the guilty only, not the innocent, regardless if they themselves want to be punished or not.
I'm sorry, but we're in Iraq by invitation of the Iraqi government. They can expel us at anytime. They want us there. Implying that we're "invading" a country is factually incorrect, absurd, and just shows complete ignorance about our foreign policy.
And we have to examine in this context that the Middle East political orgs such as governments have used terrorist groups to put forth their political aims and ambitions. As of yet there are no independent facts pointing to another terrorist-middle-east-government pairing for the 911 attacks although Iraq was slightly implied by several fundamental US groups.